Chapter 20: Dark Trials of Bonding

Fabby's body started to glow as she started to grow. Her fur changed from its bright golden color to a silver color, her eyes became a bloody red coloring. Her six tails grew in length as three more grew from her back. The burst of light stopped revealing a silver studded Ninetales in her full glory.

Fabby looked down at herself, then at a puddle of water, probably checking her reflection. Moon and Sarah looked down at her as she looked up at them. The three of them looked between each other and Sapphire and Angel as they stood in silence.

"Nine?" Fabby asked nervously, tilting her head to the side.

"Fabby thinks she looks awful." Sapphire said.

Moon smiled as he reached over and patted her head, before wrapping his arms around her neck. "It's alright Fabby," he said calmly. "Everything is alright, you look amazing."

"Tales, Nine." Moon took out the friend ball and returned her.

"Take a rest," Moon said. "You've earned it."

"Does anyone find it weird that Fabby is basically like our weird child?" Angel asked. "I mean, Fabby looks to us like parents."

"Is this really what you Pokemon talk about?" Sarah asked. "Is this why people think it's best that we are better off not knowing what you guys ask?"

Moon chuckled, "I still think that we're all good friends." he said calmly. "After all, we've been through quite a lot, haven't we?"

"We sure have." Sapphire barked.

"Alright, now that this is out of the way, onwards to the ghost trial at Thrifty Megamart!" Sarah said, pointing to the abandoned grocery store.


Cyrus scowled over the lastest report intel that Mars brought him. The man's cold blue eyes burned with hatred and disgust as he slammed his fist against the desk that he was on.

"Lord Cyrus, with all due respect, the Shadow Knight is tailing the-"

"I could give half a damn about what Shadow is doing." Cyrus muttered. "I don't have the time nor the patience to sit on my ass while our incompentent resources can't seem to come close to capturing two freaking children!"

"Lord Cyrus, Dan and Lavender have come close on multiple occasions, but another wild Pokemon keeps on showing up to save them."

Cyrus slammed his fist against the table again. "And you're CERTAIN, that Erick and Victini are nowhere near them anymore?"

"According to the Shadow Knight, yes." Mars replied. "Lord Erick and Queen Petra both parted ways with Moon and Sarah to go exploring the rest of Alola."

"So why does Moon keep avoiding our capture?" Cyrus nearly shouted. "I couldn't give two shits about Sarah anymore, I want that boy and I want him NOW!" Mars stumbled back on his voice.

"Lord Cyrus, you've been hunting down this child for five years at this point, Saturn is already dead, I doubt you're doing this for revenge at this point."

There was a sudden flash of purple light, in front of the two admins stood a boy around the age of 17, he had a head of black hair with a long braided ponytail down his backside, he had sharp yellowish eyes and wore a mostly black scheme of clothing. The boy gave a bow to Cyrus as he approached the man.

"Lord Cyrus, I bring you some news, some very...interesting news," the boy's tone was dead, you couldn't really sense any type of emotion behind it.

"It better be something important." Cyrus growled. "I don't know if I can handle any more dumb shit happening right now Dyson."

Dyson gave a mere shrug as he looked at them, from beyond his black travelling cloak he withdrew a photo and slid it across the table towards Cyrus.

Cyrus muttered as he looked at the photo, "What in the godforsaken hell have you brought me?" he scowled. "This is just another photo of that bratty boy with his now fully evolved team of Pokemon! Is this some type of twisted joke?"

"My apologies Lord Cyrus." Dyson replied. "I just wished for you to see that project gold is now at her fullest capability telling you this."

"What is it?" Cyrus muttered.

"It is about Moon, remember how you tasked me to do...well...you know."

"Yes, I know."

"Well, for starters, I found a very interesting resided heartbeat within the boy's compression. One that didn't seem to function normally, it appears that Moon may be living without a working heart in his system. I believe I have mentioned this to you before right?"

"Yes, I remember hearing something about it." Cyrus muttered. "So, I'm guessing that my theory is correct then, Moon does indeed have the artificial heart that Saturn was working on."

"Lord Cyrus, Moon is the artificial heart...like...he doesn't just carry around the work...it's his own actual heart."

Cyrus blinked in shock. "So the boy is…"

"Indeed, Moon is everything you hoped Saturn would create for you, it appears that this was Saturn's intention before discovering anything about the way you handled situations."

Cyrus's face went pale as he looked at Dyson, "How...how long has it?"

"I am not sure Lord Cyrus, perhaps it has been in there since Moon was just a baby, perhaps it has been in there only before Saturn was killed."

Cyrust growled in rage. "Damn that boy," he muttered. "Not only do I now have to spare Moon's life for the time being, I also need him more than ever."

"But Lord Cyrus, I'm sure that given enough time, we'd be able to-" Mars started before Cyrus shushed her.

"Saturn has either perfected the heart or gotten it close to perfection and placed it in his son, he burned his laboratory and research to the ground upon betraying us so we had to restart that project from scratch!" Cyrus roared at the admin. "We will never get the opportunity to come as close as Saturn may have become, everything he worked on was either destroyed or handed over to Anti-Galactic rebels."

"Are certain that this is right Cyrus?" Mars asked. "I mean, why would Saturn hide his most valuable research as his son?"

"Moon was a frail little child." Cyrus muttered. "But even if he did get over all that, that would mean I gave Saturn the idea to try and use an artificial heart on his son."

"Lord Cyrus, if I may." Dyson interrupted. "Perhaps it would be in my better interest to simply bring Moon and Sarah to you, after all, they do not know who I am and your son and Lavender have been...pardon my rudeness...goddamn awful."

Cyrus sighed, "No Dyson, keeping your identity a secret remains essential to my plan's success. If your identity were to be discovered by anyone, I'd have lost my best unit against them. Keep on the assignment I already gave to you."

Dyson and Mars looked down at the laboratory where Lusamine and Faba were trying, once again, to keep open a portal, they could see the Lake Trio, Azelf, Mespirit, and Uxie complying, but they could see Mew still showing resistance from its constraints in its glass bubble prison.

"CYRUS!" Everyone flinched as Mavis stormed into the room.

"Dammit Mavis, I don't have the time for this." Cyrus muttered. "Just go back to stalking your sister like I know you've been doing."

"Do you think this shit is funny?" Mavis snarled. "Knowing that my sister is in love with the same boy who's father sold me over! Do you think this is a joke?"

Mars and Dyson both noticed that Cyrus raised an eyebrow at her comment, he set his face back to normal before looking at Mavis with an evil smirk on his face.

"It is not my decision who your bitchy sister decides to place her faith and trust in, Mavis." he said cooly. "I can arrange to execute her from your family if you'd like."

"YOU BITCH!" Mavis screamed. "What the hell is wrong with you!"

"I'm just stating." Cyrus said coldly.

Dyson bowed to Mavis. "Ah, my sweethear-"

"Don't you even start with me!" Mavis scowled. "Why the hell are you tailing my sister with the Shadow Knight?"

"He was given orders." Cyrus said cooly. "He knows not to lay a finger on your sister."

"The SHADOW KNIGHT!" Mavis screamed. "WHY?"

"What is so wrong with the Shadow Knight my love?" Dyson asked curiously.

"Don't even start with me, you know that I don't love you." Mavis scowled.

"Whatever, the Shadow Knight is respectable Mavis." Cyrus scowled. "You do not need to concern yourself with such trivialities."


Moon and Sarah both walked out of the Thrifty Megamart with wide eyes of horror. Arcelola looked at them and giggled mischievously.

"Did the little Mimikyu give you a scare?" she asked, fighting down an urge to laugh.

Moon simply walked past her without saying a word. Rubbing his head in disbelief.

"I think he may have gotten a tiny peek at the thing without it's cloth on." Sarah sighed. "Oh but speaking of Mimikyu," she turned to the side, revealing a gray Mimikyu following her with a stick tail. "This little fella wants to come with me...one problem...we sort of ran out of Pokeballs."

"Not a problem. Here, take this dusk ball." Arcelola handed her a dark green and black pokeball with a red stripe around to its button. Sarah tapped the pokeball to Mimikyu and the pokemon went inside without any hesitation.

"You two did get the Ghostinium Z-crystal right?" Arcelola asked.

Sarah heard Moon let out a groan. "DON'T TELL ME WE HAVE TO GO BACK IN THERE!" he shouted. "I AM NOT GOING BACK THERE!"

The ghost girl giggled mischievously. "No no," she said. "I have them right here." she handed them dark purple crystals with purple gaseous looking imprints on it."

Pandora walked out on fours next to them. Sarah and Moon both finally noticed the red Absol following them, alongside Fabby, Angel, Bellatrix, and Sapphire.

"Master Moon has led us well." the Absol said calmly.

"Unlike you." Sapphire muttered, glaring at Bellatrix. "What the hell were you doing?"

"I was playing a bit of peek-a-boo with the totem."

"I'm disappointed that Sarah didn't even try to mega evolve me." Angel sighed.

"If you wanted me to mega evolve you could've just asked." Sarah muttered, startling Angel.

"I'm never going to get used to the fact that they can hear us now."

"Agreed." Sapphire muttered.

Fabby still looked utterly disappointed, despite being fully evolved and not actualing fainting in the trial, she was still upset.

"Awe, what's wrong Fabby?" Bellatrix asked as the ghost floated down next to her.

"Wh...why wasn't I able to...perform the bond phenomenon?"

"Remember what Genji and Erick said." Sapphire replied. "It's about connecting hearts in both trainer and Pokemon, find the true meaning of what you and Moon mean to each other would be what would allow you to tap into the Bond phenomenon powers if you are capable."

Fabby shook herself back to existence, "You...you're right Sapphire." she said. "Maybe I can't perform it...but that's okay...because I'm going to protect Moon...no matter what."

"So, Arcelola," Moon asked. "Where's the Kahuna of this island."

"Oh, you mean my uncle, Officer Nanu?" Arcelola asked. "Well, if you can hurry, you may be able to-"

"You talkin about me?" The three of them jumped and turned around as an old man with short gray hair and beady little red eyes approached them. He wore an officer's uniform and looked quite tired as he approached them.

"Oh, uncle Nanu, what brings you here?"

"I heard that a couple of kids were on their way to your trial, considerin I'm not exactly easy to find, I thought I'd come give them a trial."

"Oh, well, okay then, we can do it now if you'd like." Moon said.

"Of course, here and now works just fine." Nanu said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Hey, when you all are done with my uncle, come to the Aether house up past the village." Arcelola said. "You all can rest there with your friends Lillie and Hau."

"Sounds...fine." Sarah said, as she and Moon waved goodbye to the girl as she walked off.

Nanu turned back to them and walked across the beach until they were on opposite sides.

"Alright kiddos, show me what you're made of!" the man said. "Sableye, Krokodile, suit up!"

A purple gremlin creature with bright gemstone eyes, alongside a bipedal brown land crocodile with black stripes and a long tail and claws popped out of their respective Pokeballs and braced themselves for a fight.

"Looks like he's a dark type trainer." Moon said. Sarah nodded in agreement.

"Sapphire, battle stance!"

"Lucky, show your strength!"

Togetic popped out of his pokeball while Sapphire ran out in front of the two trainers, readying his aura for a fight.

"Sableye shadow ball!"

Sableye charged up a purple sphere and fired at Lucky. Lucky flapped his tiny little wings to dodge the attack before summoning a few fossil rocks and launching them at the little purple gremlin. The rocks collided with the creature as Sapphire ran up and blaze kicked the creature across the face.

Krokodile jumped up and slashed across Lucky's body to throw the egg Pokemon backwards as Sableye suddenly warped behind him and kicked him. Lucky retreated behind Sapphire, who fired an Aura sphere at Krokodile, the land croc responded by slamming one of its feet against the ground. Cracks started to form below Sapphire before he was launched into the air in a geyser like motion.

Sapphire created two holographic bones and smacked Sableye into the ground as Lucky healed himself using wish. The Aura Pokemon then grabbed onto Krokodile and used force palm to blow the other one away, Krokodile collided with Sableye as they were blown into the side of the cliff. Both Pokemon stood back up, shaking a little.

Sableye summoned a few gemstones which pointed sideways and fired lasers at Lucky, who was blasted downwards. Krokodile then ran up and bit the nubby arm that he had. Sableye then warped behind her and readied a shadow claw attack.

"Sapphire, Blaze Kick!"

"Lucky Metronome!"

Sapphire landed behind his partner and as his foot lit up he stomped the little ghost into the ground. Lucky waved his other nubby little hand around, suddenly white light started to surround him as it constantly got brighter.

Sarah groaned. "Oh goddammit, don't tell me he got-"

A massive explosion ran through the beach, sending dust and black sand everywhere as energy and light blew all over the area. When everything settled down, all four Pokemon were laying on the ground with swirls in their eyes.

"Well...at least we took out Sableye." Moon said, shrugging slightly as he and Sarah returned their fallen pokemon.

"Quite the way to start a battle there." Nanu called. "Alright, Pangoro, Weavile, suit up!"

A large panda Pokemon with a twig in its mouth alongside a Weavile both took the battlefield, ready for action.

"Fabby, battle stance."

"Angel, show your strength."

Fabby ran out in front of them as Angel teleported onto the battlefield.

"Alright Pangoro, use Hammer arm!"

The large panda charged at Fabby holding its two paws together before making a large hammer-like swing and launching the silver fox across the beach. Fabby stuck her landing with her feet before firing a blast of flames from her mouth. Weavile took the flames at full force as Angel put up a light screen to shield herself from the large blast.

Weavile got back up and charged at Angel, its claws turned to steel as it slashed her across the face. Angel fell back and fired a beam of electricity from her hands. Weavile took the shock attack before its claws flashed purple and it took a very precise slash across Angel's body. Fabby then tackled the ice type with a flame charge before Pangoro picked her up and supplexed her into the ground.

Angel turned her attention to the sky as she fired a beam of pink light at Pangoro, the beam launched the panda Pokemon across the beach as it slid to a halt on the ground. Fabby used Fire Blast to create a star of fire energy to burn Weavile and Pangoro.

"Alright Angel," Sarah said, tapping her purple mega bracelet. Multi-colored beams of light started to flash and go around Angel's neck collar where a mega stone was implanted. "When hearts connect as one, we get the power to further beyond evolution! MEGA EVOLVE!"

A ball of light surrounded Angel before bursting, leaving her with an even larger dress and helmet than before. Angel let off a little battle cry as she emerged from the light.

"Alright Angel! Use Moonblast!"

A larger blast of pink light enveloped the two dark type Pokemona and blasted them across the beach, the two pokemon fell to the ground with swirls in their eyes.

Nanu returned the two Pokemon to their Pokeballs and withdrew two more.

"Alright then, Persian, Houndoom, Suit up!"

A Dark dog with bone back armor and horns alongside a gray cat with a large purple face stood on the battlefield ready for a fight.

"It seems I'm back into a corner now." Nanu said as his Z-bracelet began to shine. "Persian, let's give that Mega Gardevior a taste of Black Hole Blitz!"

The alolan Persain launched a black hole from its mouth before charging at Angel and having its claw slash across her body. Angel fell to the ground with swirls in her eyes as the multi-colored light surrounded her and transformed her back to normal.

Fabby let out a nervous cry as she backed up.

"It's alright Fabby, we can still pull through." Moon said. Suddenly, he felt something warm inside his heart. A weird sort of blast of power in his body. He felt something warm and a weird sensation.

"Fabby, when our hearts connect as one, we can only become more powerful."

A fiery tornado surrounded Fabby as it grew taller and higher, then, the fire tornado exploded leaving Fabby with a new look. Her ears became more pointed, a red ring of fire appeared around her ninetales as the fur on her back stood up with sharp spikes. Her eyes were now also covered in a bit of black lightning scars on her sides.

Fabby charged a blue fireball from her mouth before firing the ball of flames at Persain and Houndoom, the blue fireball contacted and exploded, sending a blast of heat everywhere. When the heat and light settled down, Persain and Houndoom both fell to the ground with swirls in their eyes.

Nanu looked just as surprised as Moon and Sarah were at the fact that his final Pokemon had been defeated in a single blow.

"Well...I guess that's it then." the officer said, returning his two Pokemon. "Congratulations to the both of you on completing this trial." he handed both of them a Z-crystal with a dark symbol imprinted on the front. "Well, this old officer's gotta roll, see you two around." he gave a salute and walked off.

The fire surrounded Fabby once again as she returned back to her normal look.

"I'm...blown away." Moon said, rubbing the back of his head. "How did that even happen?"

"I have a pretty good idea!"

Moon instantly turned around, placing his hand in front of Sarah and backing her up as they turned to face the Shadow Knight.

"What…what do you want?" he asked, his voice cracked slightly.

"If you truly wish to know, your Ninetales is no ordinary Pokemon." The Shadow Knight continued. "I take great pleasure in watching people suffer...Electroweb!"

A spider web with strikes of electricity suddenly shot from the sky and slammed Moon against the ground, Sarah watched in horror as he started screaming from electrocution.

"Stop...please!" She cried. "Why are you doing this?! Stop hurting him!"

"Stay out of this little girl. I don't give a damn about you." the Shadow Knight approached Moon.

"NINE!"

Fabby jumped in front of her trainer and stood with an irritated look in her red eyes. "Nine Ninetales!"

The Shadow Knight didn't seem to be bothered by this. "I see, so that's how you want to play?" his distorted voice boomed. "Gengar, Death Time!"

A large ghost blasted Fabby with a Shadow Ball attack. Fabby blasted the ball backwards with a flamethrower, the two moves collided and exploded in a dust of smoke and ash.

"FABBY PLEASE!" Moon screamed from his electro-webbed prison. "STOP FIGHTING HIM!"

Fabby launched a dark pulse at Gengar, blowing the ghost back across the beach. The ghost Pokemon fell to the ground and stopped moving.

The Shadow Knight turned to face his fallen pokemon. "Darkrai, Phantom Force!"

Another ghostly Pokemon with wispy white hair, a red scarf like shadow and deep blue eyes came from behind Fabby and simply dashed right through her, Fabby stood up, frozen in place for a few seconds, then she fell to the ground with a crash.

"Pathetic." his voice boomed. "You are just as worthless as you always were."

Sarah jumped in front of Moon. "Please...just...whoever you are...go away!" she cried as tears fell from her eyes. "Stop hurting my friend!"

"Your friend is a piece of shit." the Shadow Knight boomed.

"Why are you hurting him?" Sarah cried over Moon's screams of pain. "Can't you see that Cyrus is evil! He's using you! Why do you hate my friend! He didn't do anything wrong!"

The skull face mask hid any emotion from whoever was behind it. "That's all you ask of me?"

"You aren't going to hurt my friend!" Sarah cried. "Not without going through me first!"

The Shadow Knight and Darkrai both looked at her with dead stares.

"If we ever cross paths again...I will make damn sure I put you in a place where you can't do this shit again." the distorted voice boomed. "Besides, this whole thing was merely just a distraction...we just needed you two distracted while we took care of the other girl."

"What...what did you…" the sudden look of horror crossed Sarah's face. "What did you do to Lillie?"

"How should I know you incompetent bitch? My orders were to harm your friend, and keep you away from the Aether house so we could kidnap the Cosmogs. I believe your little friend is now in Po town, awaiting a sacrifice of some sorts. But that's not what is important right now! Step aside so I can finish my job."

Sarah's face went pale as she looked between Moon and the Shadow Knight. "Please...stop!" she cried. "I'll do anything...just please don't hurt my friend."

It was evident that the Shadow Knight was losing his patience. "I don't strike deals girlie," he snarled. From his suit of armor, and electrical charge began to spark.

"STOP!" Moon cried. He finally tore through the webbing and stood up, putting himself in front of Sarah. "Please...stop…" he said. "You win...please...I'll come with you...just don't hurt Sarah."

"MOON NO!" Sarah screamed.

"I'll be fine Sarah...please...stop fighting."

"For the love of…" the Shadow Knight muttered. "Damn both of you...I'll deal with your shit later. I can't stand this stupid shit." he reached out and yanked Moon over to him and they both vanished in a flash of purple light. Leaving Sarah left to cry on the beach.


"SARAH!" She jolted awake on the side of the beach. Moon was overtop of her, looking down at her nervously alongside Fabby, Angel, and Sapphire. Tears were falling from his face, hard and fast as he looked at her.

"What...Moon...but you…"

"What were you thinking!" he snapped at her.

"But the shadow knight...he…"

"He hypnotized you and had his Darkrai use Nightmare." Moon snapped. "Why would you do that! I told you to stay out of it!" tears fell down his face. "Dammit Sarah! I was only trying to protect you!"

Sarah finally came to realize that at some point, this had just become one big hellish nightmare. Moon held her close to his chest, quite strangely, she couldn't hear a heartbeat, but she could feel his heavy breathing and hear his cries.

"Sarah...don't you ever…don't you ever do that again!" he cried. "The Shadow Knight is only after me...just please never do that again! I don't care how bad he's hurting me, just don't do that again!"

"What's going on...what's...Moon."

"Shshshshs." Moon shushed her quietly, holding her head to his chest. "It's alright, everything is alright. Just please never do what you just did again."

Raindrops started to fall, before a pouring down storm came over them.

"We'll go rescue Lillie from Po Town tomorrow." Moon said quietly. "Everything is alright Sarah."


Whooh boy, that's a certainly eventful chapter, I hope you all don't mind not getting a ghost trial, that Mimikyu still gives me a headache to this day, anyway, I think you all may need a break, so...here's a little Omake I made up on the fly.

Omake number 6, The One Without A Clever Title: Sarah has a heated discussion about Moon's hobbies.


"I'm exhausted." Moon muttered as he walked into the café alongside Sarah.

"I told you not to stay up all night playing Animal Crossing." Sarah scoffed.

"I wasn't playing Animal Crossing the whole time." Moon muttered. "I also played Fire Emblem."

"You have no self respect for your life do you?" Sarah asked.

"School's canceled, what the hell else am I supposed to do?"

"You could do so much more than just play a bunch of non-centrical videogames with crappy romance options and focus on your real relationship!"

"But I want to-" Sarah smacked him across the face.

"I don't understand you sometimes." she sighed.

"Listen, like it or not, I've been through enough in my life." Moon muttered. "It sucks that I still have a long way to go though."

"Yeah, but you still got people out there rooting for you. Like those people that read your stories."

"I guess, but drawing inspiration from my own fantasy isn't exactly something I want to do with my life. I took this up as a hobby to get out of my depressive downfall."

"What am I going to do with you?" Sarah asked rolling her eyes.

"You could always take me out to dinner sometime."

"Where? everyplace is only doing carry out with stuff!"

"Who gives a damn...I'll just go back to writing my stories."

"Where do you even come up with this crap?" Sarah asked in disbelief. "You're probably the most uncreative person I've ever met! I mean, when you played Animal Crossing, you just threw stuff all over the place!"

"I just kind of...write whatever comes to mind...then make it work if I can."

"I can't believe that you pull random stuff out of your butt and somehow make it work into something that people actually enjoy!"

"I just can't believe there are people who actually continue to read it and look forward to coming chapters."

Sarah threw her head back in frustration. "I will never understand this wacky world you live in."

"So no one told you life was gonna be this way?" Moon asked, clapping his hands.

"NOBODY WATCHES THAT SHOW ANYMORE!" Sarah shouted.

"Fine, I'll stop with the references." a waitress interrupted their meeting as she placed a coffee cup in front of Sarah.

"You aren't going to?"

"Don't forget who you make pay for this shit."

"Touche"


Ah romance, something that I have never actually expierenced, apart from a kiss, I've never really had a romantic relationship. I'm sure that's a shock to most people considering that Moon is based off me. But hey, no need for such trivialities, I don't really see myself as the character I'm based on, he's just my own character that I created. Sarah is actually based on mutiple different people, taking the name of well...lesser importance.

Anyway, I don't really know where I get my inspirations for writing new chapters of my stories half the time, I mostly just try to do one thing and keep things flowing smoothly, which is more than I can say for a cancelled school year but still attending online classes.

Regardless, leave a review if you want.

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
Pikaboo - Mimikyu

See you all next time.