A/N: Hey, I'm updatin' again! Wow, I'm actually getting somewhere with this story. Though, not much about the plot is shown yet, as I still have a bit to get through before that happens. Though, I don't really like this chapter... It's too... well, short for my likeing. But I did get another character in... Oh, I'm gonna shut up before I summarize the entire chapter! Oh yesh, and please reveiw! I don't have any yet, and they would really help motivate me.

Chapter 2

Shining

"No, no, NO! Wolf, you'll never get any stronger like this!" Lunar scolded his young pupil for about the millionth time that day. Or well, in Wolf's mind it was for the millionth time that day. Lunar had been drilling Wolf non-stop for the past week, training harder and harder each time. Perhaps this was his punishment for fighting a trainer pokemon, "Oh, forget it. You're dismissed."

Wolf grinned broadly as he trotted out of the small field that was often used for battling and training amongst those of the forest. However, as soon as he got to the forest, he collapsed on the closed amount of shade he could find. He laid his ears back at the sound of laughter above him.

"Ah ha ha! So, little Wolfie is tired, is he?"

"Oh, shut up before I eat you, Talon." Wolf growled as Talon lighted down next to him. Talon grinned.

"Oh, but you wouldn't do that. For I'm to fast for you!" Wolf rolled his eyes.

"Whatever. You forget who was left in the dust after we ran from Lunar that one time. Someone with wings, who was only saved by flying higher than Lunar could jump..." Talon swatted the poochyena over the head with his wing.

"Oh, shut it! T-That was a fluke! A fluke I tell ya'!" Wolf rolled his eyes, getting up to his paws.

"Okay, okay. I don't really care. Look, I'm gonna go hunt or something, you coming?" He asked, walking ahead a bit. Talon thought for several moments, unsure of what to do.

"Ah... fine. Just, no huntin' spearow or anyone I know personally, 'k?" Talon answered as he quickly flapped his wings to fly.

The undergrowth barely moved as Wolf stalked through it in a hunters crouch. His eyes were on a slightly skinny rattata. It was the first piece of unsuspecting prey he'd seen all day. He'd been hunting for hours, and the sun was nearly down, there only being a little bit of color left in the sky. He slowly walked forward, and when he got close enough, he leaped...

...And hit solid ground as the rattata quickly ran into a small hole. He growled in frustration.

"Dammit! There's nothing edible around here!" That was quite true. All the pokemon, for some reason, were all hiding. And those that he did come by... Well, lets just say that Talon has a lot of friends. Talon was perched in a tree above Wolf, glancing around and trying not to watch Wolf as he hunted. It always made him skittish, seeing as how he too would be food for a poochyena, if he were not protected by Wolf.

"How's it goin'?" He called down. Wolf glared up at him angrily.

"Not very well. Talon, if we ever go someplace new... please, do me a favor and do NOT make any new friends..." He growled, as he perked his ears to try to hear any other sound of prey, and trying not to let his growling stomach give him away to any that were around. It wasn't long before he heard the sounds that could only be defined as a pidgey, searching for worms.

Wolf once again lowered himself into a hunter's crouch, smelling the air for any smell of pidgey. He followed the scent and peered out from the grass at the lone pidgey. By his terms, it was quite plump, just perfect. His eyes glittered with hunger as he licked his lips in his anticipation for the future meal. Slowly he walked forward... one step... two steps... three steps...

"PID-!"

And that was the end of the pidgey. Wolf stood transfixed and in shock as an umbreon stood in front of him with the pidgey in its mouth -- his pidgey. Anger swelled in him as he glared at it.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing? That was mine!" He yelled at the umbreon. His icy blue eyes narrowed in anger as he bared his sharp teeth, the two fangs that every poochyena had very apparent.

"You snooze, you lose, kid." The umbreon's smooth voice came to his ears. It was apparent from the voice the umbreon was female. Her sleek black fur showed she was healthy, and her yellow eyes glared at him as she dug into the pidgey that was meant to be his. Her rings, were a glowing blue rather than the normal gold of the average umbreon.

She seemed to be grinning to herself, as if she got enjoyment out of Wolf's envy. She quickly finished off the pidgey, right in his face. She smirked, her eyes giving away pure enjoyment as she circled Wolf.

"What's your name, kid?" She asked, her rings seeming to glow slightly stronger. It figures, it's getting darker even as they spoke.

"It's Wolf. And stop calling me kid! You're obviously no older than me!" She smirked.

"Ah, but you see, I am far wiser than you. It's only fair that I get to call you kid, kid." She grinned, before her eyes fell upon the blue stripe down his back. She hissed.

"Damn you! You're one of them! Those mutated pokemon!" She hissed, her fur prickling as she bared her teeth at him. He looked at her confused.

"So? You are too! Look at those rings of yours! And your eyes!" She growled deep in her through at she circled him again, hitting him in the side of the head with her tail as she did so.

"You are as dimwitted as a slowpoke with amnesia! I am not like you! I am one of the most rarest and unique of the pokemon species, a shining pokemon!" She hissed. Wolf was even more confused than he had been to begin with.

"Shining? Lady, what in this world is a freaking shining pokemon?" She shook her head slightly.

"You're even worse than a slowpoke with amnesia! A shining pokemon has different coloring than that of a normal pokemon. But because of you... you... freaks, we have been hunted even more! Confused with you no-good mongrels!" She hissed, finishing her circles. She stopped in front of him.

It was than that she sat back on her haunches and leapt at him, claws out and teeth bared. It happened so fast Wolf didn't have time to get out of the way.

"HEY!"

The umbreon fell to the ground, growling angrily as blood fell down her cheek and arm. Talon hovered angrily in front of his friends, glaring at the umbreon as she glared at him and Wolf, who quickly got into a defensive position.

She looked between Wolf and Talon, and deciding it wasn't worth it, turned to run, but before she ran, she yelled over her shoulder, "Next time kid, you won't have that bird to protect you."

Talon landed next to Wolf after the umbreon left. Wolf shook his head at the smirk that appeared on his best friends beak. Ohh dear Mew... He thought

"Well, well, well... Wha'dya know... I actually saved you Wolf! Ha! Me! I saved you! Oh man this is so awesome!" Talon cheered for himself, earning several calls from the trees above them. Wolf's favorite being, 'Shut it 'fore I get down there and roast you!'

That still didn't stop Talons taunting's as they walked back to the hollow tree they shared as a home. Nor did it stop Wolf's growling stomach. Wolf couldn't help but think that Lunar and Solar must've really had a lot of food, as he noticed Solar seemed to be slightly bigger than she had been the week before. He most definitely couldn't stop the image of the pidgey from coming to his mind as he attempted to sleep.