Chapter 16: Aether President & Plasma Royalty.

Sarah awoke later that night in the Konikoni city Pokemon center. She had been sharing a bed with Moon as the only room available contained only one bed. Sapphire and Angel had been sleeping with each other on the specially made beds they had laid out for their Pokemon with their sleeping bags. Well, except for Fabby and Lyn, who were supposed to be sleeping at the edge of the bed. Before bed, she had sent Delta and Bellatrix over to Professor Kukui for Snowy and Scar, while Moon had sent Jade back for Lancer.

Quite strangely, however, Moon was not sleeping next to her, Silver, Fabby, and Edelgard also appeared to be missing as well. She glanced at the clock, it was five thirty! Sunrise wasn't for another hour. She quietly slipped out of bed and attempted to walk outside of her room before she heard a small quiet cry.

"Ka?"

She let out a sigh and turned around, walking over to the edge of the bed and picking Lyn up and walking outside of her room. Pokemon Centers were always open 24-7 since you never knew when your Pokemon could get sick.

She slowly yawned as she walked into the lobby of the Pokemon center. Nurse Joy wasn't behind the counter, in fact, the whole place looked deserted. She wasn't worried however, knowing Moon, it was pretty obvious where he'd be.

"Ka Ka?" Lyn asked.

"It's alright." Sarah replied calmly. "We're just going on a little walk...okay?"

"Ka." Lyn cooed.

She walked out the backside of the Pokemon Center and onto the battlefield. As she expected, she found him outside. He was standing next to Edelgard, who was watching Silver and Fabby on opposite sides of the field with interest. Both Pokemon appeared to be in a mini practice battle as Fabby dodged one of Silvers quick ice punches.

She stood next to Moon with Lyn propped up in her arms. It took him a moment to realize she was standing next to him. When he realized she was there, he turned to her and smiled.

"Oh hey," he said. "I didn't realize you were up?"

"A bit early for a morning training session don't you think?" She replied.

"Well, I was going to take the opportunity to evolve Silver." Moon replied. "There was a Razor Claw for sale in the Poke mart, only 100 pokedollars, so I decided to give it a go."

"And Edelgard is here?"

"She woke up when I was heading out with Silver and Fabby, so I just let her come and watch."

"Phi!" Edelgard squeaked. It was then that Sarah noticed that the baby Pokemon had a few scratches and burn marks on her.

"Um...Moon...Edelgard is injured." She said,

"Yeah, she wanted a go at battling, so I gave her a chance. Don't worry, I took her out the second she got injured."

Sarah nodded in response. "Alright, that makes sense."

Moon nodded, "Okay Fabby," he said calmly, "Try out your fireball attack."

Fabby gave a nervous nod as she charged up a small fireball in her mouth before firing it a Silver, Silver quickly rolled out of the way of several small fireball charges from Fabby's mouth, each one was launched in quite rapid succession.

"Alright Silver, try an Icy Slash."

Silver rolled out of the way of another fireball before quickly dashing at Fabby, his sharp claws turned to ice as he unleashed a slash across the fox's body. Fabby fell back and let out a large cry, startling Moon.

"Silver...I told you to be gentle." he said calmly as he approached Fabby and picked her up, who looked devastated at her defeat.

"Hey, it's alright," he said calmly. "We're right next to a Pokemon Center, and it's only for practice...you're alright...please relax."

"Sne!" Silver's body started to glow as he grew in size. His claws expanded from two to three, his feather head became a type of red diadem type thing that went around his neck, and there was now some yellow dot in between his eyes.

"Weavile!" Silver roared.

"Amazing." Moon said calmly as the sun started to rise.

"So, what's on the agenda today?" Sarah asked as Lyn started to drift back asleep.

"Well, not much I guess." Moon replied. "We should be making our way towards Ula'Ula island, but, those Aether Employees wanted us to meet them at the Hano Grand Resort so we could speak to their president...so...we might as well just listen to them."

"VUL!" both of them looked at Fabby, the golden fox shook her head at them before running over and pawing at Moon's legs. "Vul Vul Pix!" she cried.

Both trainers knelt towards her as she continued pawing at Moon.

"Is everything alright?" Sarah asked. "What's wrong...those people help injured Pokemon...you don't need to be afraid of them."

Both of their pendants began flashing as she started speaking to them again.

"No...No...No!" Fabby said, completely unaware that they could hear her. "Don't go! They're bad people! Their president is evil! Please don't go! I don't want to go back to them! Please!"

Both of them looked at her with confused faces.

"Oh dammit, where's Sapphire when I need him." She cried. "I don't have aura connection! What am I supposed to do? Why can't you just understand that I'm nervous about these people because they're the ones who tortured me! I don't want you to know that they did all that horrible stuff to me...because they'll find a way to get rid of you...but I can't indicate that they're evil! Please...just change your minds!"

Moon turned to look at Sarah, apparently, Fabby had mistaken their looks of shock for just being confused by her constant cries. He and Sarah had good chemistry in the past when it came to making stuff up on the fly, so hopefully they could do the same here.

"I don't know Sarah," he said calmly. "Those people really freaked Fabby out...maybe it's best we don't go."

Sarah seemed to pick up on his intentions quickly. "Oh come on." she replied. "Those people were just trying to help that poor Slowpoke...maybe she's mistaken them for someone."

"No No NO!" Fabby cried. "I didn't mistake them for anyone! Please...understand that I'm trying to protect you two! PLEASE!" They waited a bit in silence before Fabby stopped pawing at Moon to start pawing at Sarah. "I wish I could talk! But I can't!" she continued. "Please Sarah, can't you see that those people are evil! They use their facility as a cover fire!"

Moon shrugged. "It's a possibility," he said to Sarah. "But they did seem a little shady asking all those questions about Fabby."

"Maybe meeting their president would help give us a better picture." Sarah replied. "We should still go...I think it's just her paranoia."

"I guess you're right." Moon replied. They both looked at Fabby, who looked absolutely mortified by their words. "Let's go to the Hano Grand Resort and see for ourselves."


The two of them arrived in a large walled off area outside of Heahea City, they could see a large marble hotel of beauty in the center of the resort, with a large beach down at the southern end of the area, a waterpark in the east, Pokemon services and it's own mini market place with several restaurants in the south. Sapphire, Kirlia, Fabby and Lyn were all out and with them.

"Damn," Sarah said. "This resort looks like it could be its own city!"

"I think that this place is used for tourists of Alola and as ports for cruise liners from other regions." Moon said, looking around. "Hey look, there's a cruiseliner from Unova!" he continued, pointing to a large boat that was docked in the port.

"Well, while we look for those Aether people, why don't we take a look around?" Moon asked her. She nodded in agreement before they set off to the marketplace. They looked in a variety of different shops selling all sorts of Pokemon goods that would be customary for people to the region, like flower leis made from the help of wild Comfey, Nectar from the four flower fields for Oricorio, there were even breeders looking to give away eggs of Alola form Pokemon.

Their exploration was cut short however, when Lyn started to throw another fussy tantrum. So they halted themselves in front of a cafe, where they decided to have lunch, feeding themselves, and giving all their Pokemon malasadas, which Sarah and Moon had to crumb feed to Lyn and Edelgard after they both threw a fit of jealousy.

"You sure you've been okay?" Moon asked as he watched Sarah struggle with Lyn. "She's quite demanding don't you think?"

"It's alright." Sarah replied with a smile. "Besides, she's good training for when we have kids of our own someday!"

Moon's face flushed red in embarrassment while their Pokemon all snickered. He stuttered over his words for a reply and all that he was able to bring himself to say was "sure." in a low voice. After that his face turned to look amongst a crowd of people surrounding a battlefield when his face fell again.

"Looks like Ruby and Echo are battling," he said quietly. Sarah looked out into the crowd, sure enough the red loving boy was on one side of the battlefield with Echo by his side. On their side, a Lapras and a Darmanitan stood firm.

The two other challengers returned their pokemon to their Pokeballs and walked off with a defeated look in their eyes. The crowd slowly died away leaving only Ruby and Echo left on the battlefield, the two of them took notice of them and their Pokemon watching and made their way over to them.

"Quite the battle." Moon said calmly as the two sat down next to them.

"Don't be modest." Ruby sneered. "Those two were weaklings. Don't even know how to use their Pokemon properly...much like the two of you. We didn't even have to use our Darmanitan and Lapras's full power."

"Judging a Pokemon and Trainer's skill on power alone is not a good thing." Sarah replied flatly. "That's like basing a team focusing on Fire types alone, sure, they're powerful, but they're useless against someone with water, rock, or ground types."

"Yet, such feats have been accomplished before." Echo hummed. "Charging headfirst is just too good, power is key, if a Pokemon is not powerful, it is not useful. The Aether Foundation was kind enough to give us a tour of their facilities. They showed us some very powerful Pokemon who just got the bad end of the stick."

"Like you did to your Beedrill?" Moon snapped back.

"Honestly, I'm surprised you're carrying the little thing around." Ruby replied. "I'm assuming that you haven't given up hope that he can be useful...please...he couldn't even deal with Mallow's totems for us!"

"Funny, because he did a pretty damn good job against them for us." Sarah replied with an irritated tone.

"He must've been carried by your Vulpix and your Torracat then." Echo sneered. "I just can't see a world where he actually does something useful." Both trainers' eyes fell on the two baby Pokemon they were holding.

"Wow...you must actually be dumber than you look." Dan sneered. "Why would you be carrying around babies? No wonder you two have such a pathetic looking team, most of your time is spent caring for fussy Pokemon. Starting with you Sarah, you shouldn't even have that baby Kangaskhan, it's mother is going to come and rip you to shreds, and I believe the Aether Foundation would have your head."

"I rescued this poor creature, her mother was crushed under volcanic rock! She would've died on her own!" Sarah spat at him.

"There's a reason why though." Echo replied with her quiet ringing voice. "The baby is born weak so it's mother can raise it to be strong and live on its own when she gets older. The baby is given proper guidance by its mother and is often even left in dangerous situations without their child to see if they are ready. You are babying an already weak Pokemon to become even weaker...how do you expect to pick up wins with her in the future?"

"She's a baby!" Sarah hissed. "What the hell is wrong with both of you? She could've died if we didn't take her into our care...and you say we should've let her die?" The whole exchange went on as Lyn looked up at Sarah with a confused look in her eyes.

"Circle of life." Ruby shrugged, "Weaklings die, Big deal."

"Then there's you, Moon." Echo continued. "You look to be holding onto a new species of Pokemon, you could have a true powerhouse right in your arms...maybe it would be best to throw her into combat and see what happens...or maybe have a researcher perform some tests to see if she holds any further capabilities...or...even better...give her to a more qualified trainer."

Sarah noted that a hint of red could be visible in Moon's usually blue eyes, a trait that she had come to realize, was his anger towards people bringing something about his past whether intentional or not.

"I was given a duty by Manaphy to protect this Pokemon." he snapped at them. "I would never let someone else take her, or any of my other Pokemon, away from me. Unless you assholes have something nice to say, I recommend you both leave."

Both trainers raised an eyebrow at his comment before leaning back and observing him and Sarah with narrowed eyes.

"Oh, I get it now." Echo said slyly, "You both think that you're SOOO special because you both hold onto more powerful Pokemon, you think that it's your duty as their guardian to be open and considerate huh? Pssh, please, if anything, this just makes you both even more pathetic!"

Moon stood up in a clear break of blind rage. However, before he could do anything, his ocean wave pendant began to shine.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion." Manaphy said to Moon. "However, you should not let one's opinion get to your heads."

Moon stayed silent, bawling his hands into fists.

"Moon, just because you regret not helping that one Pokemon that got captured long ago, doesn't mean that you should feel like you must protect every Pokemon that is in your care. What if Edelgard had decided she didn't want to be your Pokemon and just live in the wild? Would you have let her go? Or would you have forced her to stay because of a duty I gave you?"

He still stayed silent just trying to calm himself down.

"I know you can hear me, my guardian," Manaphy continued. "If you are worried about seeming like a fool by talking to yourself...you don't need to be, this conversation is happening inside our shared connection. Others cannot hear you...I can tell that there is something on your mind, what is it?"

Moon bit down on himself. "I'm your guardian Manaphy," he said. "I'm supposed to serve you, if you ask something of me, it is something I must do."

"What do you think you are to me? A Knight? A Servant?" Manaphy asked. There was a faint sigh in the distance before continuing. "I must've known it was a bad omen when Shaymin said that Sarah wouldn't need as much guidance as you would. You are so much more one-sided than I first thought...but...that's what I liked about you...I saw an opportunity to help someone."

Moon blinked in confusion, from off in the distance, he heard an explosion.

"Manaphy...are you okay?" he asked nervously.

"I am okay, my guardian." Manaphy replied calmly. "You do not need to worry about me, I am only in danger if you are in danger...that is how this works."

"Manaphy...please…"

"My guardian, you must not fret over me, I am alright. My life is only in danger should that pendant you wear end up in the wrong hands. Be patient and stop fretting about your past. You are not my servant, nor are you my knight, you are my friend...if I give you a task, it is your rightful duty to follow my task up to a Pokemon's choice. I don't get to control every Pokemon." Another explosion could be heard in the distance.

"I must go, my guardian, but I am always with you. Do not forget that."

Moon blinked back into reality. Ruby and Echo both looked pissed.

"What? Are you just going to stand there in silence?" Echo snapped. "How dare you ignore us."

"You don't deserve to wear those pendants." Ruby reached for the ocean wave pendant around his neck.

"Psychic, at once!"

Blue light surrounded Ruby, Moon looked at Sarah, who seemed just as confused as he was. They were approached by a boy and girl around their age, the boy had raven black hair, wore a pair of black sunglasses, which should've been covering his hazel brown eyes, and an outfit that gave you a sort of...Plague Doctor type feel, around his neck, he wore a pendant with an orange star. A green Espeon walked beside him with blue flashing from its gem within its forehead.

His companion was a girl with chocolate brown eyes and hair tied into two little braids, she wore a yellow sundress and small heels. Around her neck was a pendant that looked like a music note that you'd usually see on a sheet of music. Next to her was a Breloom.

The boy approached Ruby, who was still being held by Espeon's Physic control. He had the expression of a forceful but calm sentiment to him. "You sure are a fool." the boy said. "Trying to take an object of importance, Manaphy did not choose you as its guardian did it?"

"If there is some sort of problem you have with these two, please share it with us at once." the girl said.

Ruby didn't say anything, however, he certainly was trying.

"Right...sorry, Release your hold." he said, looking at Espeon. Espeon nodded and stopped emitting blue light from her gem. Ruby was suddenly able to move and speak again. He and Echo took one long look at the two new people before muttering.

"No, there's no problem." Ruby muttered. "Just...got a little jealous, didn't believe he was actually Manaphy's guardian, sorry about that. We'll take our leave, see you two around." he and Echo bobth did a little bow to the two people and walked off.

The boy waited for the two of them to walk off before turning to Moon and Sarah. He gave them a smile before lowering his sunglasses over his eyes and extending his hand out to them. "Hey Moon, hey Sarah." he said. "Been a while hasn't it?"

Both of them blinked in confusion at him, Espeon approached Angel and Sapphire and started talking to them.

"Oh...you both are acquaintances of Lord Heart?" The girl asked.

"Oh shit!" Moon nearly shouted. "Wow, Erick...I uh...yeah it has been awhile...I see that Sunny evolved as well...jeez...how have you been?...and uh...who's your friend?"

"I have been doing well." Erick replied. "I've risen to my own power within Unova, after all, I am the champion."

Both Moon and Sarah felt their jaws hit the ground. "Wow…" Sarah replied. "You're the champion?"

"Well...half champion." Erick replied. "This is Petra Gropius," he said. "She's the heir to the reign of house Unova, and the future queen of Team Plasma."

"Wait...why are you working with Team Plasma? I thought they were bad guys?"

"That was three years ago." Petra replied. "After my father N was brought to the realization that Ghetsis was an evil leader, the ranks of Team Plasma split, those who wished to follow the royal line of Unova who were now working for fair treatment of Pokemon, and those who wished to follow Ghetsis. Lord Erick is essentially my guard. I adventured with him throughout his Unova journey, together, we both stopped Team Plasma, my partner is Ares." she pointed at Breloom.

Moon raised an eyebrow. "Wait...are you a true descendant of the royal Unovan family?" he asked. "Like...your family heritage can be traced all the way back to the two brothers who caused the split of the original dragon?"

"That is most correct." Petra replied.

"So...you can understand what Pokemon say to you?"

"Indeed, I can hear the voice of Pokemon, much like my ancestors could...In addition, I am also the keeper of Meloetta. While Lord Erick is the keeper of Victini."

"Espe!" Sunny said,

"I know you are excited to see Sapphire and Angel again Sunny," Erick said. "But we are here on business at the moment."

"You can understand your Pokemon?" Sarah asked in shock.

"Physic type Pokemon are able to translate their speech to humans when they master their powers." Erick said. "It is likely that Angel could do the same. But, moving on, we better be heading off, we are here on important business, but we wouldn't mind vacationing for a bit, maybe we can travel around with you for a while."

"AH!" a female voice said "What a coincidence, we weren't expecting all of you at once."

The four turned around the Aether foundation member that Moon and Sarah had helped in Diglett's cave approached them.

"Lord Erick, Queen Petra," the woman said, bowing. "Madam President was not expecting your company so soon. Hello to you as well Mr. Moon and Mrs. Sarah. Please, may you all report to the hotel in the center, we've reserved a meeting room there, don't worry, everything will be alright."

"You've got business with Aether as well?" Erick asked in shock after the woman had left.

"Not really," Moon replied. "We just helped her out with an issue against Team Skull. Now she wants us to meet the president. Sarah and I will return most of our Pokemon and go up there with you all."

While they did that, Petra looked at Fabby, who had jumped and backed away at the sight of the woman. She was still shaking nervously. She listened to the Pokemon's thoughts and was given quite the startle.


The four trainers, along with Fabby, Sapphire and Angel had entered a large executive room inside of the Hano Grand Resort. Inside, there was a woman that reminded Moon and Sarah a lot of Lillie and Gladion, she had emerald green eyes and stupidly long blonde hair, she wore a white dress, tights, and heels and some weird black jewelry necklace. There was also a man with a little blond bear and stupidly big lime green goggles.

"Hello Lord Erick, Hello to you as well Queen Petra." The woman said. "Thank you so much for agreeing to meet here with me. I am Lusamine, president of Aether Foundation, this is my assistant Faba."

"Pleasure." the man said with a low tone.

She then turned to Moon and Sarah. "You must be the trainers my employees were talking about, thank you for helping them out against Team Skull. We are most aware that you are not interested in becoming members of the Aether Foundation, after this meeting is over, we will see you both through to the next island." Her eyes however, never left Fabby, who Moon was holding onto.

"If it is all the same." Erick butted in, "Her highness is supposed to be on vacation, I know that you had plans in mind Madam President, however, I must inform you of my royal duties."

"This will not take very long." Faba said, folding his hands together, he got up from his seat and walked over "Moon, correct? Where did you find that Vulpix?" Moon felt Fabby starting to shake nervously. Faba observed her closely, coming in a very uncomfortable distance to him. He looked over Fabby before looking up at Moon.

"Tell me, young boy, where did you find this Vulpix?" he asked.

"Lie, you better lie." Sapphire's voice said to him. "We shouldn't trust these people. I don't sense very pure auras around here."

That was enough confirmation for him, he looked over at Sarah and nodded his head. Then he turned back to Faba.

"This Vulpix was a gift, my father rescued her from a poacher in the Sinnoh region."

Faba raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure about that?" he asked, leaning closer to Fabby. "It is very rude to lie to others I'll have you know, and I sense that there's a lot you wish to hide about yourself. Did you maybe perhaps, find her somewhere in Kanto? Or maybe on one of our Islands? We have rare instances of Alola-species breeding their Kanto variants...or maybe-"

"Enough Faba." Lusamine snapped. "If the boy says that his Vulpix was rescued in Sinnoh, she was rescued in Sinnoh."

"Madam President-"

"Enough Faba!" Lusamaine said with a really sharp tone.

"Very well then," Faba said, "Forgive my rudeness." Fabby still was shaking in Moon's arms. Faba walked back over to the table and sat down.

"Madam Lusamine." Petra said, doing a little curtsey, "I have heard many...things about the Aether Foundation, Team Plasma has been most interested in your work...why do require us?"

"Aether has been looking to expand its resources to other regions and hopefully one day reach a goal similar to Team Plasma's." Lusamine said calmly. "Considering our situation, we would love to expand our capabilities into other regions. We were hoping you'd allow us to set up a research base in Unova."

"Vul Vul VUL!" Fabby cried.

"Sorry about that." Moon said quickly. "Fabby's still quite scared of new humans."

Petra locked eyes with Lusamine, almost giving her a judging stare.

"I will commend Aether's efforts." she said calmly. "However, Unova does not have the resources capable of funding such an activity as the paradise island you have built. Plus, I am still quite new to the queen thing, I am sure that Unovan citizens will be unwilling to comply."

"Perhaps you should come and tour the Aether Paradise." Faba said, rubbing his chin. "Aether could prove itself to you."

"Forgive me, but I do not wish to take time out of my already short vacation schedule to tour on business purposes." Petra said. "I wish to explore Alola and see the nature of the region. I do hope that you can be forgiving."

Lusamine and Faba looked less than happy at her response.

"Are you sure, your highness?" Lusamine asked with a hint of anger.

Erick stepped in for her. "If her highness wishes to not waste her vacation time, then I must insist that we extend this meeting no further."

To them, it looked like Lusamine was ready to explode in rage. Instead, she let out a sigh and stood up.

"Very well then, thank you for your time your highness." she said with a hint of disappointment. "If you wish to see the nature of the islands, I recommend that you go and visit Ula' Ula island with Moon and Sarah, they have a very diverse terrain of nature there. Faba and I will accompany you back to the Aether Base, then our boat will escort you to Ula' Ula."

After boarding a small white motor boat and riding for about 30 minutes, Lusamine and Faba stepped off in a closed off port. When they had stepped off, Moon turned to Petra and Erick.

"Something tells me you didn't just deny them access into Unova just because of resources." Moon said. "What was up with that?"

"I do not wish to believe that Aether is following suit." Petra replied. "Something about Lusamine and the way your Vulpix acted around the rest of Aether was very concerning, Lord Erick and I would be safe since we have Sunny and Ares, along with Victini and Meloetta should the situation present itself. But other than that, I just don't trust that woman, she gives me a bad vibe."

"So we're going to part ways in Ula' Ula?" Moon asked.

"No, I wish to observe the two of you in a trial first." Petra said. "I'm very interested in how you hold such a challenge without gyms."

"If that is what Petra wishes, then I shall do the same." Erick replied.

"Alright then, looks like the Sinnoh Triforce is back in action!" Sarah said.


Lusamine approached the central elevator inside of the Aether Paradise, followed closely by Faba.

"Madam President, I know we were in public, but we still could've done something about those kids. And then Moon, Why did you let Project Gold AND Project Delta get away?"

"Project Gold and Delta are still of interest, and now we know who holds them." Lusamine replied as she entered a secret code. "But still Faba, we were in a public area, we could not do such a thing with all four of them. Especially with a Plasma Knight around."

"But we really could've used Victini and Meloetta to-"

"Silence Faba." Lusamine replied. "I will take credit that Dan and my daughter Lavender will step up their game. It is most useful that we remain on good terms with Cyrus, and more importantly, you should be thankful that Moon didn't recognize you!"

The elevator door dinged and slid open as they entered a massive laboratory, several people dressed in white hazmat like suits inside stopped clicking on various lab computers or looking at printing papers and test tubes to immediately stand up and bow to them.

"Madam President." One of them said. "We've been trying, but the true Cosmogs energy is running very low, and the the fake energy we've been squeezing out isn't enough."

Lusamine's eyes flashed a reddish color as she looked at him. "Then keep trying dammit!" she snapped. "We can't count on Team Skull to get back the real Cosmogs."

She pushed past the rest of the members who kept trying to tell her other things and approached a glass cage, inside of the cage, a pink cat-like pokemon laid on the ground, electrical sparks erupted off of it as it struggled to even move about from several injuries. She pounded on the cage with all her might making the Pokemon jump up with an irritated look in it's bright blue eyes as it floated there.

"Me-Mew!" it cried angrily as it coughed out a bit of smoke..

"STOP WHINING!" She roared. "We need more of your power to get what we need. Why can't you just be compliant with us! I don't care how much I have to torture you until you understand, but you will bond with me and do as I say...and once we have those Cosmogs, you will continue to help us! We have your pendant, and we know Mavis has Lugia's! You can't do a damn thing about it. Now, don't struggle, and this won't hurt." She pressed a button as an electrical discharge zapped Mew within the cage. The small Pokemon cried the whole zap before falling onto the floor as Lusamine's evil cackle echoed through the laboratory.


Well, that's all for today's chapter, unfortunately, I'm really pushed for time following this, so the Omakes that I write separately will be short another chapter, Plus, I'm not sure about my current word count, but given my notes, I don't want to give a weird word count on today's chapter.

Anyway, a couple of things to note, Number 1, Erick and Petra will be here for a short while or the rest of the story depending on how I feel like writing, these two will be the protagonists of the Prequel to this story, whenever the hell I get around to writing that. For now though, they are going to be here to help Moon and Sarah get used to the upcoming start of using Megas and Battle Bonds, I'm going to attempt keep much about them, such as their Pokémon and backstory at a minimum as much of their plot has yet to be decided upon.

Number 2, Mew was heavily considered to be Moon's main legendary as it has grown on me progressively. However, I decided to cut that idea in favor of Manaphy when deciding I wanted to add more hatred between Moon and the Aether Foundation with Delta Phione. Something that, as you may notice, he seems to have an issue with. Maybe Mew will join the team along with Manaphy and Shaymin, maybe not, we'll have to see.

I brought this one up because you may think that Moon seems to get more attention than Sarah. I wrote this story with attention of having Two-protagonists with different ideologies and personalities, but with a similar goal, development of each character seems to shift focus from time to time. Sarah's conflicts were her struggles early on which will come back in the form of our main conflict to kind of bite her. She doesn't have much value of hatred towards enemies because of Mavis.

Moon on the other hand is already a developed character still looking for his purpose, as stated in his description, he has a hard time interreacting well with others. I wanted to put emphasis on the character traits between both Keeper and Legendary, however, the direction of the plot for Sarah just didn't allow that kind of support that I wanted Shaymin to offer. Shadows of the past are always something that plays into effect with Moon, throughout both stories for Earthbound and Pokémon, I have him as a rigid character with a straightforward mindset, it's thanks to the issues that Sarah has that make him start to slowly change. In fact, for anyone who has read/is reading Bound By Earth and Unfound Revenge, you can see that his old traits are still visible in some ways. I'll probably include some more details on that in the next chapter of that though.

I think that personally, this is the reason why my stories don't seem to interest that many people, because I have protagonists who constantly fight for development and sort of leave everyone else in the dust at times and (as I have been so rudely informed of by multiple people) makes for shitty writing. But, as I've come to learn, it doesn't really matter about views or favorites here, I'm just satisfied that a few of you found enjoyment in what I write. I also think that this is part of the reason why I struggle so much with fight scenes, because I put to much emphasis on characters, but, as I was shown in Bound By Earth, that can actually be pretty entertaining giving light to usually mute protagonists. I just wanted to clear up any confusion that I may have caused.

Also wow, seems I've gone a bit off topic here, well, who cares, maybe I've opened up some eyes. Leave a review if you want.

PKMN Teams:

Moon Wolfe:
Fabby - Vulpix
Sapphire - Riolu
Jade - Dartrix
Sammy - Furret
Genji - Frogadier
Silver - Weavile
Lancer - Beedrill
Gojira - Pupitar
Edelgard - Phione_Delta

Sarah Jones:
Angel - Kirlia
Snowy - Eevee
Scar - Torracat
Candy - Corsola
Bellatrix - Mismagius
Flora - Lilligant
Delta - Dragalge
Lyn - Baby Kanga
Lucky - Togetic

Erick Heart:
Sunny - Espeon
Victini

Petra Gropius:
Ares - Breloom
Meloetta

See you all next time.