Chapter 9: Final Goodbye
A year has pass since the battle for Silver's freedom, everyone including Jill started to believe that Silver was killed in battle and given up the search for her all together. They also believed that Silver defeated X8 before her death, because most of the battles between Team Rocket and Themselves were for them to hand over X8. This gave Firebolt some hope before that Silver was still alive before. Yet, it seemed impossible that she was still alive.
Firebolt now had a base of operation in Lavender town, and was celebrating another victory over Team Rocket and the birth of the future leader of Firebolt. Jill gently places the baby into her crib for the night when two flashes catch her eye. The first flash she saw was a red, and she just thought it was a trainer riding a ponyta or rapidash, but the last flash she saw was a blue flash. 'No, she's dead.' Jill thought to herself as she walked over to the bed with a little boy about five years old and pulls a blanket over him.
"The good news is I'm too strong to die." A voice said quietly into the room. Jill turned around and sitting in a chair was a scarred but alive Silver who was smiling at Jill. Jill smiled and some tears of joy, now she knows that Silver was alive and well. Silver Stood up and walked over to the crib and look at the baby in there. Jill looked at Silver's face and notices that this was the first time Silver have ever seen a baby.
"So, what happen to X8?" Jill said trying to talk to her
"He's alive," Silver replied gently as her hand touched the baby's hand.
"What!? How is he alive and not with team rocket?" Jill began to pace when Silver looked up with her scarred eye.
"He now like me, a rouge looking for a place in this world, He calls himself Blank now, instead of X8."
Jill walked beside Silver and took a houndoom charm out of her pocket. "Here, I think you should have this back, Silver." Silver took the charm from Jill's hand and looked at it for a little bit, and then she looked at the baby.
"What's the child's name?" Silver asked Jill softly ever thought she knew the answer. Jill shook her head lightly and Silver smiled lightly as she gently places the houndoom charm on the baby. "She can have my old name, if I keep this charm, I'll think I'm connected to Team Rocket still."
Then as Silver turn around, two pokeballs drop from her belt to the ground and releasing two pokemon: a baby eevee and a young houndour. Silver quickly turn back around and pick the pokeballs. She was about ready to call them back when the eevee somehow jump up in the crib with the baby and the houndour jumped and force her head under the boy's arm. "They choice to be with them, Silver, just leave them be." Jill said as Silver nodded in an agreement with her.
"Your right, beside they'll be much happier with these two." Silver said, but she knew something that she didn't want to tell Jill about. Jill saw the look Silver on Silver's face and was worried. "Silver, what's wrong?"
"I saw something, but I wish I could tell you."
"Silver, I'm your friend, you can tell me." Jill said with a sigh.
Silver took sighed and looked up to Jill, "Your nephew has a good future ahead of him, but your daughter has an uncertain future, but before her ninth birthday, something will happen to her that will have Team Rocket involve."
Jill looked at Silver, and saw she was serious, but Jill's heart grew angry, "I'll prevent it then, I'll make sure she stays here under my watchful eye." Jill said but Silver shook her head.
"That's not going to happen, because you're not going to be there after her fifth birthday." Silver said with a tear running down her eye, "I'm sorry, Jill, but I must going, I'll watch over you and your daughter as much as I can." With that, Silver jumped out of the window. Jill ran to the window and all she saw after that was a blue flash of light head off to the horizon.
"That was the last time Jill saw Silver. After Jill's death, when the moon was full, the guards who watch over the valley say a blue flamed rapidash would stand on the tallest hill watch over us and that my young friends this is the legend of the moonlight thief." A man in his late twenties told a group of children who were listening carefully to his every word. All the children cheered and ran out of the room while one dark figure stayed in the room. "Drake, you can come out now."
A boy about thirteen years old wearing a black cloak and dark clothes appeared out of the shadows. "Why do you tell that rubbish, even to the future leader of Team Electric, Ethan?"
"One, your cousin loves that story. Two, it really happened." Ethan said to Drake. Drake and Ethan began to argue when a boy in his late teens wearing no shirt but loosen pant and a headband came in the room. He only stayed for a little a bit before he got tried of the arguments between the two. He began to wander outside when a little girl with an eevee came up to him. "Master Ben, I'm ready for my lesson." The seven year old girl said.
Ben patted the girl on the head and smiled at her, "There's no lessons today, Nicole, why don't you go and play with the other children." Ben said as the girl ran off to play with the eevee following behind her. Ben lightly smile as he walks toward his home then a thought came to his head. 'I wonder if she'll more like her mother or like Silver'
On the highest hill of the valley two riders on two different rapidashs looked down to the playing children as the girl and her eevee joined up with them. The one rider sighed lightly as the other took his eyes of the children. "What's wrong?" He said to the other rider, but the rider shook her head.
"It's nothing, really." She said as the rapidash she was riding turned around and disappear with a thought on her mind, 'Jill, I'll watch over Nicole like I promise, but if team rocket continues their rein of terror like they've been doing, Nicole will grow to be a fine leader of Team Electric, even if the event I foreseen happens .'
Final Notes: I like to thank Lightning Strike and Umbreon for their support and the use of their characters throughout the story. It's going to another fiction featuring Silver and her childhood. Stay tuned, Before the Moonlight is coming soon to a wolf's den near you.