Chapter 34: once a dream turned to nightmare

Lace:

All 3 of us got into the boat and the old man agreed to take us to Newmoon Island. He asked "what took you so long in there, miss?" I didn't think that searching such an island would take as long as it did. I answered "seeing something that took me back to the days when I was younger" the old man was confused but to Flareon and Vaporeon, it made sense. I closed my eyes as I felt the wind blow through my hair and I was thinking about the promise I made the Giratine when Flareon shyly asked "was Giratina the reason you went to Team Galactic?" looking back, Giratina was the reason I became a trainer, but the promise was the reason I went to thievery so I answered "I did what I felt was right, whether it was for myself or for someone else"

we approached Newmoon Island, it was really late and the appearance of the island was the mirror image of Fullmoon Island. Except the part of the island where people could land was more of a sandy beach with rocks that lead to the dense woods. We got off of the boat and I said to the old man "let's set up camp here and we'll set sail back to the mainland in the morning" he seemed to agree as I walked into the woods with Flareon and Vaporeon. Flareon asked "why are we staying here tonight when we could have headed back?" I petted him and answered "this legendary pokemon is one of nightmares, that means he'd most likely show himself as well as powers late at night" we walked into the even darker woods and headed to the centre of the island where Darkrai is said to be. As we entered a clearing, there was what seemed like a lake that had been drained out. We walked down and saw before us, darkness beyond blackest pitch, it was like seeing a void of darkness that swirled like a mist or a cloth that was catch on a tree. His eyes glowed in the night and this mist or cloth took form to be more visible, Darkrai's true form. With a wave of his hand, the darkness around him grew around us, kind of like with what happened with Cresselia.

~flashback~

It seemed like a year of taking care of Giratina had passed and me and the Giratina had grown. When I returned to the Giratina, it seemed like it was a normal day, like it had been the last few months. But as I walked to where we were hanging out, the tress seemed to have been broken and snapped. I ran around looking for Giratina but I was unable to find him.

in the distance I heard faint mumbling so I ran to where I heard them and in a clearing was Giratina. He was surrounded by people in grey and white suits. They also had light blue hair with the letter G on it. I didn't know this at the time but they were members of Team Galactic and I hid to listen to what they were doing. Giratina was hurt and bleeding but I didn't know what I should do, in all fairness who would at 7 years old. One of then shouted "don't let this one get away. We absolutely need it by orders of our leader, Cyrus" the grunts all had Crobats, Skuntanks, Purugly and Bronzor.

They commanded their pokemon to attack and as they did, Giratna was being hurt even more so that its blood was being slashed over the trees, plants and rocks. They were taunting him and kept up their ruthless attacks. The only one who came to help Giratina was a Shaymin but this one looked different from the usual colours. The grass that would usually be green is instead a red colour and the flower that's usually a pink colour was a light shade of orange. This one was brave enough to try to save Giratina but was knocked away quickly. as soon as this happened, Giratina used shadow force and disappeared. Every one of the grunts were confused as to where he went, but even I was confused. Moments later he appeared and a shock wave from his appearance hit every pokemon and trainer that was around him, dealing great damage to them all. The shockwave even pushed afew trees down and the autumn themed Shaymin, red grass with an orange flower ran up to Giratina.

Giratine saw through the leaves and branches of the various bushes that I was hiding behind and as I came into his view, I get a strange sensation. GIratina closed his eyes and disappeared into the shadows and the Team Galactic grunts all ignored my existence to chase after him. Despite the bond we both had formed as well as the time we had spent together, I kept searching for him every day for weeks even months and that was the last time I ever saw him.

~flashback ends~

The memories of the bad times circled in my head as Flareon and Vaporeon were deeply surprised to images they saw thanks to Darkrai's power of nightmares. That means that not full filling the promise I made bothers me even to this day. Darkrai stood there, retracting the darkness he let forth and just looked to me. It seems like Giratina and his where abouts were not part of the luna duo but that nightmare and dream both gave me useful hints. The time with Cresselia told me that even in the darkness things can change over time and my time with Darkrai told me that the grunts from the past had to have tracked Giratina to there. So, they must have information on him somewhere, the question is where. As I thought that, a Team Galactic helicopter flew over our heads with Jupiter standing in front of the open side door.

"looks like we also found Darkrai, I'll take the girl on down there too" Jupiter shouted out and I knew that this was the perfect chance to get the information I need. All I have to do is win.