Author's notes: Yes, I hath decided to upload the prologue and first chapter in the same night. But that's only cuz' I already have them both written out... I haven't started chapter 2 yet, but I hope to get to it soon. After all, it is my last week of winter vacation. Well, I hope you all enjoy my story, and don't forget to push the pretty little button down there that says reveiw!

Chapter 1

Mentor's Warning

Shadows. Long, dark, almost always following someone or something, shying away from the light... That was what he felt like at times, what he was. A shadow. A mere small shadow of... well, of what he did not know. He was merely there. Quite possibly the only thing that motivated him, was his hatred of humans, his deep hatred of the, what he considered, vile creatures.

So perhaps that was what he was. A shadow merely following a hatred. Who knew. He just knew he hated them. He hated them for casting this horrid virus amongst them, and then acting as if they had always been that way, hunting them. Murdering them. It mattered not to them whether the pokemon lived or died. Only that they were getting rid of something dangerous. Or well, something dangerous in their minds. He often heard that they thought he, and others like him, were dangerous because Team Rocket had been dangerous. Because they had unleashed some vile creature amongst them called Mewtwo. He personally thought the humans were just afraid of the unknown.

He laughed lowly to himself. The irony of it all. Perhaps if pokemon were as high up as humans were, they too would be greedy. No... they are far too close to nature to truly be greedy. But perhaps they would be close too it. Who knows.

Wolf sniffed the air slightly. Yes. He was close now, close to where he lived, with what few friends he had. What? Just because he was rough, and quite harsh at times, did not mean he didn't have any friends. Albeit, many Pokemon were scared of him, and others just hated him for his differences, he still had those few who liked him. Though despite the smell of his friends and home... he hesitated going home, instead veered off slightly, heading in a direction only slightly off coarse.

If you glanced at him, he would appear to be your every day poochyena, lithe and fast, and slightly malnourished. But if you looked closely you would see the differences. The most notable was the blue stripe down his back. The next was his icy blue eyes, rather than gold. And the last and least noticeable of them all, was his height. He was slightly taller than the every-day poochyena, being around 2'1. The only difference between him and other poochyena that would be fairly normal, was the large scar on his upper right arm.

"Puh... What am I so scared of anyways? There's nothing he could do to me... I'm stronger than him! ... Aren't I?" Wolf kicked a stray stone on the ground angrily, watching as it bounced away harmlessly. "Wait! I can just not tell him, and go on like nothing happened... Ooh... that won't work... He'll definitely want to know why I haven't gotten home yet.."

Wolf growled angrily to himself. There was no way to avoid it, no way to avoid going home and being punished for something he knew he should not have done in the first place. Wolf angrily kicked another rock, and like the last, it too bounced away harmlessly to sit in the same place until someone else came to kick it away and to a new position. But this still didn't get rid of the frustration Wolf had at being unable to come up with a logical explanation -- or more like excuse -- to tell when he got home. So, seeing as how he had lack of much else to do to get rid of his frustration, he raised his head to the heavens and yelled.

"DAMN!"

Perhaps not the most polite word to be said, and definitely not one used often amongst pokemon. And pokemon were definitely not where Wolf had learned such a word.

"You know, yelling curse words isn't going to help you any." Wolf jumped, having been completely unaware of the presence of someone else. When he saw faint rings glowing in the darkness, he held back the urge to curse again, and merely cringed.

"Er... L-Lunar... I... Ah... You see..." Wolf cowered even lower before the pokemon before him. Just a little ways a way from him sat a pokemon, an umbreon. His red eyes peered into Wolf's icy blue eyes.

"Yes, that is my name. And judging by the fact you have not come home, and instead decided to wander off to the creek, as you always do, that you obviously have something on your mind. Or more likely, you have done something you believe I will not approve of." Wolf tilted his head. The creek? Looking down, he noticed that he was indeed, at the creek. Now that he thought about it, he did always come to the creek.

"Er... well..." Wolf took a breath. There was no hiding it now, "I... Lunar, I see... I fought with a... well... a trainer pokemon." Lunar narrowed his eyes, getting to his paws and walking to Wolf. The size difference between the two was fairly big, or at least it was to Wolf. Wolf was only around two feet, while Lunar was the average size of an umbreon, three feet.

"You battled a trainer pokemon? No... you picked on a trainer pokemon..." Lunar growled, looking down at Wolf as he cowered.

"N-no! She started it!" Wolf yelled out, sounding very much like a pup. He hated that! He absolutely hated sounding weak, and Lunar almost always seemed to make him seem that way.

"I don't care who started it, Wolf. You were still picking on her by battling her. You know you are stronger than the trainers starting out around here." Lunar glared at him. Wolf thought franticly for something that would get him out of this, something that would convince Lunar he did nothing wrong, without sounding like a cub.

"I... Uh... S... She was like me! She had the virus, she was a different color!" Lunar shook his head, turning to walk away. Before he left, he turned his head to speak.

"Wolf, it doesn't matter if she's like you. You should not be picking fights with those weaker than you, picking on them. It would be dishonorable to you, and to me as your mentor. I know you know better than that." Lunar quickly walked off, towards their home. Wolf stared after him, until he was sure Lunar was gone.

He growled angrily, and plopped down by the side of the creek, looking in it. The only sound that came from it was the sound of running water, no water pokemon ran through it at this time of night. Most were asleep anyways. Not that Wolf cared. But sometimes watching the playful antics of some of them was rather relaxing. He sighed as he watched the water as it went over rocks, down a very small little waterfall, and just continued one. Running along as if it were the only thing to do in the world.

Getting to his paws, he saw one of the pebbles he had kicked earlier. And for the heck of it, he kicked it again, hard. This time, instead of landing harmlessly among the ground, it hit a tree rather hard, bouncing off the rough bark. Of coarse, the tree still made a very loud sound. Wolf's ears laid back against his head. He hoped he didn't wake anyone.

"Hey, how's a bird s'pose to get any sleep 'round here?" Wolf shook his head, before lifting his head up.

"Er, sorry, I-" Wait a minute. He knew that voice, "Talon? That you?" A head poked out from the tree, crawling over to a branch to stare at the poochyena. When it discovered it couldn't see as well from the darkness, it fluttered down to land in front of Wolf.

It was a spearow, a very small spearow, being around seven inches, unlike the normal spearow size of a foot. Other than small size, it looked to be about normal, with a small crystal hanging around it's neck on a string.

"Oh! Wolf!" The spearow, Talon, looked slightly surprised, "I didn't see you in this dark light!"

"Didn't see? Talon, you were sleeping!" Talon looked quite sheepish.

"Er... Yes, but... Well... I was waiting for you! When you weren't home yet from your 'walk' I came to the creek, knowing you'd be trying to come up with an excuse for ol' Lunar. I guess I just... fell asleep."

"Yeah, fell asleep and probably lead Lunar here. He was waiting for me too!" Wolf grumbled, "And you might not wanna call him old, he might getcha' for that."

"But he's not my mentor." Talon said, raising an eyebrow.

"So. That doesn't mean he won't discipline you." Wolf said. Lunar was very... well, unpredictable. You never knew what he would do. Wolf didn't even think that Solar, Lunar's mate, knew what he would do next.

"... Well, what'd he do to ya'?" Talon asked, poking Wolf with redish wing. Wolf thought about this for several moments... Lunar didn't discipline him! He came off lucky! He grinned.

"Nothing. He forgot to discipline me!" Wolf grinned even larger. That was fairly rare for Wolf to grin. But the grin was cut short when another thought came to him, "But what do you think is large enough on his mind to make him forget about disciplining me?" Talon's eyes widened.

"I have no idea... But it's gotta be pretty big." He answered as he fluffed up his feathers, "Pretty big indeed."

Lunar sighed as he slowly walked towards the small cave he shared with his mate, Solar. Not too far away from the small cave was a pretty large hollowed out tree, which was what Wolf and Talon shared as a home, along with a small family of Pidgey.

He slowly walked into the cave, it not being too large, just right for him and Solar. After all, they did not need much room, for they never really had visitors over. Lunar was hardly home as well, for if he weren't training Wolf, he was out trying to help some other poor pokemon in the forest. When he sat down on the pile of leaves and moss that he and Solar used for a bed, his shoulder started itching. He lifted his leg to scratch at it furiously, which woke Solar.

Solar was a very lithe and small espeon, being very gentle and such to the other creatures of the forest. She lifted her head and looked over at her mate.

"Lunar? Is something wrong?" She asked in her soft voice, worried for Lunar's well-being. He growled in frustration, as the itch did not go away. In a few short moments, his shoulder went from itching to stinging. And just like that... it stopped. He growled angrily.

"... Yes. Something tells me there's something up. I know it..." He said, narrowing his eyes as he stared at his shoulder. No! Not now! Anything but now... Why couldn't they have given up when they should? Oh, dammit all!