Chapter 19: Evolution Omens

Moon groaned as he woke up and lifted himself up in a bed. He felt horrible, his head was throbbing, his arms felt sore, and he didn't know how long it had been since he had passed out.

He hadn't even gathered his own surroundings before he felt something slam its arms around him and hug him tightly. As he blinked back into existence he saw Sarah hugging him tightly.

"Thank Arceus." She said. "You're okay...that's all that matters at the moment."

"What...what happened?" Moon asked, rubbing his head.

"That's what we'd like to know." Erick said with a puzzled expression. "You took a pretty bad beating from something by the looks of things...what happened? Do you even remember?"

Moon rubbed his head and groaned. "All I remember is...I think he muttered. This was a complete and utter lie.

"No…you're lying." Sarah said flatly, startling him. "I saw it with my own eyes Moon...that person in the black skull mask and black armor. I saw him...what happened? Who is he?"

The three watched as Moon's face became pale. He shuddered for a little bit, as he bit down on himself. Fabby was stilling sitting on his bed, but she had moved up to his lap to paw at his chest nervously.

"Vul...vulpix!"

"It's alright," Moon said, hugging his partner. "That man isn't after you Fabby."

"Moon, who is this masked man that Sarah speaks of?" Erick questioned. "I haven't heard of such a thing anywhere in Alola, Unova, or Sinnoh."

Moon swallowed as his face became paler. "He's...he's…" Moon stuttered. "I...I can't tell you guys...it's too dangerous."

"Moon, may I remind you that you have an elite Plasma Knight here with you." Petra butted in. "You also have two people with legendary Pokemon by their side, with you and Sarah being the guardians of two more."

"Yeah...but…" Moon continued with a quiet voice. "That man...he's...he's." he looked at Sapphire, who was also shuddering at the thought of the man.

"Moon please, that man nearly killed you...he attacked you with Pokemon...who is he? What does he want with you?"

Moon didn't speak, instead he kept shaking before saying. "Could...could someone...hand me my backpack?"

Sarah reached out and handed him his red backpack. Moon took it and simply unzipped it, taking out the large package that Lillie had given him yesterday. Carefully, he took off the tape and opened the box. He took out a couple of things from the box, including a letter.

Moon Wolfe,

Your father made a big mistake, I have the information that he asked you to keep quiet from, or if he never told you then that's on him, for now though, I have left the Shadow Knight to do his bidding around you...and he will do the same to Sarah if necessary. Rest assured that I will tear Manaphy from your grasp and kill you if it comes to it. Or, you can do the right thing and rejoin Team Galactic.

Cyrus

Moon looked irritated at the letter, he brought Fabby over and had her unleash a few small embers at the letter. The letter burned away before anyone else could read it.

"What did that say?" Erick asked.

"It's just Cyrus asking me to join Team Galactic." Moon muttered, before going back to the box. He took out an old notebook that he recognized as his father's. Then, he finally found what he was expecting to see, an old plague doctor-like mask that looked small and fit for someone around his age.

"He's called the Shadow Knight." Moon muttered. "He's a dark servant of Cyrus, Cyrus will use him to torture others into joining him, or to just kick down all the small trainers. All the surrenders of the Sinnoh Elite four were done because of him. He works for Cyrus as like a paid mercenary."

"So...what does that have to do with you?" Erick asked skeptically.

"Cyrus was furious when my father betrayed Team Galactic." Moon replied darkly. "The Shadow Knight was hired to track our family down, which is why Cynthia told us to stay in Celestic Town with her, because not even Cyrus dared to challenge her. I was kept there for five years before this. Now, I'm assuming that he's following me."

"Well let us look for him and stop him!" Erick said. "This is a threat to your safety and it must be addressed at once! I'm most certain that Miss Cynthia would be most concerned about the likes of the Shadow Knight.

Moon shook his head rapidly. "No...no don't do that." he said. The Shadow Knight is a force to be reckoned with, you see, he's a descendant of the shadow tribe...you know...the same people who plagued Sinnoh under the reign of terror from Darkrai...he's descendant of the leader, which passes down the family heirloom of Darkrai's object, I think it's some sort of weird Moon Pendant or something."

His three friends looked at him with worry. "That's...certainly a problem." Erick said. "Are you sure you'll be okay Moon? Because Petra and I were going to part ways with you to go check out the rest of the island."

"I'll be fine." Moon responded. "The Shadow Knight doesn't kill...he just does hard work for Cyrus...and even then...it's not like he'll appear all the time."

"Well...if you truly believe that you'll be alright...then I can't say that we'll help you."

Sarah looked at Moon nervously, it was like him to usually push away help, but, this Shadow Knight? What about Moon was so special that Cyrus felt the need to send in a torture machine? More importantly, why did he flee upon seeing her? Surely he had to be a strong trainer who wouldn't hesitate unless ordered to. What was the deal with that?

Moon pushed himself out of the bed at the Pokemon center and stretched, they could hear a few cracks from his stiff body as they flinched.

"Enough about the Shadow Knight." Moon muttered, "Let's go."


Moon and Sarah arrived at the Malie City Garden, Erick and Petra had parted ways to go check out the rest of the island. Now, they were in the Malie city garden, they now saw a man with spiky white and black hair and a large gold chain with a G on it. He wore a black leather jacket and looked furious as he glared at the professor.

"Alright Kukui," the man grunted, crossing . "Give it up, where are those two children?"

"No need for that Guzma ol' pal." Kukui responded. "I think that I'll keep their location private."

Guzma frowned at the professor. "Whatever, it's no use for me to battle you, you're stronger than I, no use in getting my Pokemon washed up in a worthless battle."

Kukui looked at the man, "Guzma, come on cuz, we can work something out, you say you wanted to run a bug trial...we can try and work something out...come on cousin, Cyrus is only going to throw you away."

The man's eyes flashed, "I've been pushed aside by the world one time too many, Cyrus is gonna help me fix that problem, just like the skull grunts."

"Come on Guz, it ain't that bad. We can help."

"I think not," Guzma snarled. "My daughter will get them eventually."

"Are you sure it's wise for your daughter to be spending so much time with Dan, Cynthia said that Cyrus will manipulate anyone who spends enough time. Also, Moon has said that his son can be quite the conniving bastard, are you sure it would be wise to let your daughter do such things?"

"Lavender is the least of my problems." Guzma scowled. "I don't like this any more than you do."

"Well cousin, I know there's something still in there, if you ever come around to it, we can work something out okay?"

Guzma muttered something and pushed past Professor Kukui, He took a look over Moon and Sarah, his mad glare startled Fabby and had Lyn clutch onto Sarah nervously. The man didn't say anything, however, and just walked off.

Kukui approached the two of them and clapped their shoulders. "Wahey there." he said. "I heard that Sophocles had something for me?" Sarah nodded and handed him the Masked Royal's mask.

"Splendid." The professor exclaimed. "I'll be sure to get this back to my friend at the Royal stadium. Anyway, I'm glad you all came, I've got something for the two of you." he handed them a replica of a Fire and Grass Z-crystals from his pocket.

"We...already have one of those." Moon replied.

"Nonsense, these are special Z-crystals!" Kukui replied. "These are for Rowlet and Litten's final evolutions, this'll allow them to use their own special Z-move!"

"Oh, Incineroar and Decidueye have their own Z-moves?" Moon asked.

"Of course!" Kukui replied. "Wouldn't be the signature starters of Alola without it."

"Let's just quickly discover one for Charizard and call it a day then huh?" Moon muttered.

"Anyway, the two of you better be off, next trial is up by the old Thrifty Megamart location, that's a ghost type trial, be sure you all are prepared for that one."

"Gon Gon ZZZZZ!"

A floating artificial pink duck with yellow swirly eyes and bill floated behind Moon and Sarah. It hovered around Sarah in particular as it's swirl eyes kept scanning her with constant beeps.

"Also, pardon me for asking, but I was given this Porygon Z here by some kid who couldn't take care of it anymore, would one of you like to hold onto him?"

"I'll take it!" Sarah said, raising her hand high.

"Okay then, here, it was given to me in this timer ball." he handed Sarah a white Pokeball with a mini clock embedded on the top half with red jetline tops on top. Sarah took the Pokeball as Porygon Z floated down to her.

"Alright Techno, let's have fun!" She giggled, returning the Pokemon to its pokeball.

"Here I was worried that you were going to name that thing Digit." Moon muttered. Sarah stuck her tongue out at him again.

"Alright kiddos, you all stay safe now!" Kukui said, waving them goodbye. Moon and Sarah waved back as they walked out of the garden, unaware that they were being followed.


"Alright Sparky!" Moon said, as his newly evolved Jolteon double kicked Techno while it floated around. "Now, Thunderbolt!"

"Jolt!" A large thunderbolt shot from the spikey fur that the yellow dog Pokemon had around it. Techno responded by firing an ice beam, the two moves collided in an explosion as the two new members of their teams fell to the ground, tired.

Moon and Sarah both nodded and applauded their Pokemon before returning them. They had decided to set up camp on this weird black sand beach near the Thrifty Megamart. The Pokemon Center in the town above was all booked up, so this was the next best option for them.

Moon stretched out, cracking a few more muscles in his body, it was still very sore from last night. Sarah watched him in disappointment, knowing him, any question she wanted to ask about the Shadow knight was not going to be answered by him. Moon also seemed pretty bent out of shape, he was relatively quiet and simply watched the calm ocean waves crash along the shore. He was never an easy person to get along with, but she could tell that he felt nervous.

"Hey Moon." she asked quietly.

"Hmmm?" Moon snapped himself back to her. "Oh...is something wrong Sarah?"

Sarah felt herself get warm as a large blush appeared on her cheeks. She stood up, taking his hands and pulling him up to her.

"Moon...would you...dance with me?" she asked nervously, her face became even redder.

Moon felt himself blushing in embarrassment at the question. Fabby, Sapphire, and Angel were the only Pokemon out of their pokeballs at the moment, and they just sort of stood there in confusion, watching their two trainers.

"Sarah...you know that I…" he fell silent as he saw tears start to form in her eyes.

"Moon...please…" she said quietly. "If you won't tell me why Team Galactic has been after you all these years...at least make me feel comfortable knowing that you aren't worried about it."

Moon bit down on himself, then, he wrapped his left arm around her waist and kept holding her left hand with his right. Feeling a large blush rise on his cheeks, he slowly swayed both of them back and forth, moving from side to side and occasionally turning each other around, gently he dropped his arm from around her waist and with only their two conjoined hands, they turned half way, facing their Pokemon, then brought them back together before doing the same side to side occasional spin movement from before.

"What...what are they doing?" Fabby asked nervously as they watched their trainers separate and move in a circular motion around, never taking their eyes off one another.

"I want to say they're dancing." Angel replied with a confused tone as their two trainers reconnected in the center and repeated the same first thing they had done. Moon then took a step away, lifting their connected hands up and had Sarah spin around, both of their trainers looked embarrassed and calm at the same time.

"Wait a second." Sapphire barked. "Isn't this the exact same dance that Ninten and Ana do in Earthbound Beginnings?"

Moon and Sarah reconnected in their same starting position, both of their faces looked like they had been badly sunburnt by how red they were. Their main three Pokemon watched them with weird smiles on their faces.

"Infernape! Use Fire Punch!"

"Scizor X-scissor!"

A blue beam of light suddenly wrapped itself around the two trainers and snapped them together. Then an Infernape jumped from out of the ground and unleashed a quick Fire Punch at Sapphire, while a Scizor slashed Angel across the beach. Moon and Sarah had been snapped together to put them in a forced sitting position with their backs to each other, both of them were unable to reach for their pokeballs.

Dan and Lavender both hopped down from a ledge with evil grins on their faces.

"Finally those two Unovan idiots left." Dan snarled. "You all are free for the taking now!"

Lavender took out a little glass capsule top and quickly placed it over Fabby, a golden top knocked the fox off her footing, leaving her stuck in the capsule she got up and started making crying noises that could be heard quite easily as she pawed at her prison. Lavender picked the capsule up with both hands and held it close to her.

"Hello there goldey," the girl said with an evil grin. "Don't worry about your little trainer, Team Galactic will take good care of him while we get you back for your own research.

"VUL VUL PIX PIX!" Fabby cried loudly as she kept pawing at her confined prison.

"Fabby please...stay calm!" Moon said with an attempted close to calm voice. It was evident that he was fighting back his own tears.

Dan bent down in front of the two of them. "We told you," he snarled as he reached up and yanked the two pendants off their necks. "You should've just handed them over when you had the chance."

Sapphire and Angel both lifted themselves up and looked at what was going on. Earning themselves a look from both their trainers, and their kidnappers. Then, for the first time, Moon and Sarah both heard their own Pokemon's voices, both of them, together.

"We must protect our friends." Sapphire barked.

"Agreed, prepare to be defeated!" Angel cried.

Blue light surrounded both of their Pokemon. They both grew to be about the same height, Sapphire's metal bumps turned to spikes as one grew on his chest, his ears became more pointed, and he formed into a bit more of a person. Angel's skirt-like body disappeared, hiding her legs behind what they could now assume was a white dress, her small green arms grews a bit wider and longer and her helmet formed over her two eyes giving her a more rounded face with a sharp middle in between her eyes.

"Infernape, get them!"

"Scizor! Crush them!"

Sapphire summoned a bright blue bone and broke it in two as he charged at Infernape, he swung the bones like swords, beating Infernapes quick rapid punches as he hit hard. Angel put up a barrier, protecting her from Scizor's metal claws before summoning a black sphere and launching it at the bug.

Sapphire punched Infernape up in the air before summoning and charging a light blue ball with his hands.

"KAMEHAMEHA!" he barked, blasting the sphere at Infernape. The fire monkey was blasted by the Aura Sphere and exploded, the monkey dropped to the ground with swirls in its eyes.

Angel directed her attention towards the rising moon, a bunch of blue light gathered around her hands as she charged and blasted Scizor across the beach, the armored bug slammed into Infernape and both Pokemon fell to the ground with swirls in their eyes.

Dan scowled and turned to Lavender as they returned their Pokemon. "We can at least get out of here with project gold," he snarled. "Honchkrow!"

"Absol!"

A reddish wolf like Pokemon hopped out from behind the night sky and with its weird crescent horn, slashed across Honchkrow who was diving down. The red Absol then tackled Lavender and Dan, making them drop the capsule containing Fabby and the two pendants. The red absol growled at Dan and Lavender as they tried to approach the capsule again.

"I think it's best we get out of here." Lavender muttered. She took out a pokeball and released an Abra. "Get us out of here, now!" the two of them vanished in a flash of purple light.

The Absol gave a little bow of its head towards Moon and Sarah before its horn flashed and it sliced the capsule containing Fabby open. The golden Vulpix let out a yelp before running towards Moon and Sarah, who were still bound together and pawing at them, crying incessantly.

"Calm down Fabby." Sapphire said as they approached their trainers.

"Agreed, listen to Sapphire," Sarah said.

"Now, how do we get this contraption off of you?" Angel asked curiously. "It's the same contraption that they used on Pokemon back in Sinnoh, so it's immune to most attacks."

"Hey, you two look like you could use a hand." They all turned their heads towards Gladion, who had a little smug grin on his face as he approached them.

"Good thing I just finished up the ghost trial." he said calmly. "Now," he took a remote control and pressed a button on it, the beam of light faded and unsnapped the two of them as they stood up. Gladion also handed them their pendants as well.

"I believe that these belong to you." he said.

"Wait...shouldn't you be trying to kidnap us as well?" Moon asked skeptically.

"Like I said the first time we met." Gladion said as he shrugged, "I may be a part of Team Skull, who may be helping Team Galactic, but I'm not cut out for crime, yes, technically I should be attempting to kidnap the two of you...but I'm not...I'd rather work as an inside agent."

"Well...thank you Gladion." Sarah said as she and Moon rose up.

"Don't mention it." the boy muttered. "By the way...I wanted to tell you something about the Cosmogs that the professor's assistant carries."

"Wait...are you after them as well?"

"Of course not idiot, I would've already had them by this point. But the rest of Team Skull is definitely after them. Thankfully, they don't know the person who has them, because to them, I haven't found that person yet. Anyway, you two should be careful and tell that Lillie girl to be as well, it would not be pretty if these Pokemon ended up in the hands of Aether."

"So Aether is evil!" Moon said. "I knew it!"

"Yeah, but don't go declaring that." Gladion shushed. "They've got agents everywhere, he then turned to look at Fabby, who was still pawing at Moon's legs. That Vulpix of yours actually was property of the Aether paradise, she was a part of a big project that their president was working on...I can only tell you that you've done an amazing thing getting her to trust you. You may want to keep her safe as well...and also keep that Delta Phione safe."

"Wait how do you know all this-"

"Sorry, but I've said enough." Gladion said. "See you all around." he waved goodbye as he walked off.

Moon and Sarah took a moment to comprehend everything that had just happened before they shook themselves back to normal.

"Okay, so, quick rundown, Angel and Sapphire evolved, they can both speak to us now, apparently, this random shiny Absol just came out of nowhere and saved us, and then all the crap with Gladion. Before we end this stupid chapter, is there anything else we should do?"

"Abs!" the red wolf Pokemon bowed its head at Moon.

Moon felt something moving around in his backpack. Sapphire suddenly walked off from behind him and looked at Moon.

"Absol says she would like to join us." he said calmly.

"Oh...uh...okay." Moon said, he fiddled around until he came across the Moon Ball and held it out towards Absol. "Uh, welcome aboard...I...I guess I can call you Pandora."

The Absol nodded and tapped her head to the pokeball. She went inside and clicked in with a ding. The Moon ball then vanished over to Professor Kukui's.

"Alright then," Sarah said, "Now I believe that we can-"

"Vul Vu ulp pix!" Fabby cried, pawing at Moon's legs some more.

Sapphire knelt down and placed something on the ground. In between Moon and Fabby, the fire stone Kiawe had given him laid on the ground.

"Sapphire, what's going on?" Moon asked.

"Fabby says that she wants to protect you...she's upset that she can't do that." Angel said, "If she truly wishes to get stronger, she'll have to make a choice."

Moon and Sarah looked at each other, then at Fabby. The golden fox was still standing in front of the Fire stone, looking down at it with a depressed look in her eye.

"Fabby...please." Moon said calmly as he reached for the stone. "That wasn't your fault...you don't have to force yourself to evolve...it's fine."

Fabby shook her head at him. "Vul Vul Pix!" she cried, Moon paused his grab and looked at the stone in his hands.

"If you think you're ready." he said, holding the stone out. "Then I won't stop you."

Fabby looked at her trainer with her sparkling yellow eyes. Then, she reached out and tapped the stone with her paw.


A bit of weird way to end off the chapter, but you know what, who cares? Anyway, Ask and I'll deliver, here's an Omake that's not about Pokemon or much else, but hey, advertising am I right? Anyway, uh, yeah, enjoy!

Omake number 5, Class Day: Moon and Sapphire get a bit over their heads in Garreg Mach


"By the goddess of Seiros! I shall head my power and destroy you in combat!" Sapphire shouted, readying his axe.

"Dude, you're a heavy armor class." Moon muttered. "I'm a Warlock Class, it's like the type matchups in Pokémon, Magic does extra damage against Heavy Armor."

"The power of the goddess makes me fear no magic!" Sapphire declared. "You better pick a god and pray!"

"What god am I supposed to pick?" Moon muttered, "You know I despise the teachings of Seiros!"

"STOP RUINING MY AWESOME BATTLE QUOTES! DAMN YOU!" Sapphire shouted.

Moon let out a sigh and simply moved out of the way as Sapphire charged at him and swinging the axe in a really slow manor.

"Thoron!" a large beam of blue lightning blasted Sapphire across the training grounds. The blue haired boy heaved himself up as he gasped from impact.

"Why'd I choose to pursue heavy armor?" he muttered.

"Hey, the Black Eagles needed a heavy armor guy." Moon said, shrugging slightly. "It's not like anyone ever tutors Edelgard and Ferdinand in them."

"Yeah...speaking of which...why the hell am I here anyway? I'm not even one of your own characters! Hell, I've never even played Fire Emblem!"

"Ask whoever's in charge of this wacky crossover heavy world the two of us have created."

"It's like some sort of stupid running gag." Sapphire groaned.

"Anyway, what day is today again?" Moon asked.

"I believe it's like...the fifth day of the Wyvern Moon...why'd you ask?" Sapphire said.

"Wait...a second...weren't we supposed to-"

KA-BOOM! A large explosion could be heard from off in the distance. The two abandoned their position in the training grounds and ran over to the Dining hall, where Annette emerged from the smoking kitchen, coughing and hacking.

"Shit, the professor's gonna really give it to us now." Sapphire said.

"Annette we told you to not start cooking without us!" Moon muttered.

"Sorry, I just...I had other things to do today okay...by the time I got here I was way behind schedule and-"

"Professor, I think I've heard a bunch of noise coming from the kitchen...do you remember who was put on Kitchen duty today?"

"Not off the top of my head Seteh." Came the voice of Byleth.

Moon and Sapphire both grabbed onto Annette, who was still coughing from the smoke.

"Let's get out of here before we're put on Stable duty again." the three then ran out of the Kitchen hall.


This Omake is dedicated to be teaser for the latest story of mine, Black Dawn, A Crimson Flower. The first chapter is out already if you want to check it out. Anyway, a lot happened in this chapter, Guzma, Evolutions, new team members, yeah, pretty much one crazy ride. Leave a review letting me know what you think, next time I'll be doing the Ghost Trial AND the Dark grand trial before we visit Po-town, hope you all are excited. Also, just quick word of reference, I'm not sure if I'll use Erick and Petra again for this story, so I'm removing them from the bottom for now.

PKMN Teams:

Moon Wolfe:
Fabby - Ninetales
Sapphire - Lucario
Jade - Dartrix
Sammy - Furret
Genji - Greninja
Silver - Weavile
Lancer - Beedrill
Gojira - Pupitar
Edelgard - Phione_Delta
Sparky - Jolteon
Pandora - Absol

Sarah Jones:
Angel - Gardevior
Snowy - Glaceon
Scar - Incineroar
Candy - Corsola
Bellatrix - Mismagius
Flora - Lilligant
Delta - Dragalge
Lyn - Baby Kanga
Lucky - Togetic
Techno - Porygon Z

See you all next time.