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The last twenty-four hours have been more than exhausting and overwhelming for them, both psychologically and emotionally and mentally. And the situation in the tribe was not any better, because since yesterday, after the conflict between Claw and Luna, one could remember the difficult feelings that circulated within the unit of the tribe itself. Otherwise, they wouldn't pay too much attention to all this, but the reason why the fight took place, the excessive retention of Ahiru and Azur in the camp, as well as the fact that the elders did not have any news after their return was not at all relieving. Azur was very lucky that before dawn he had enough strength to go to the crystal cave and fulfill his daily duty, as well as the fact that there was not even the slightest problem inside the cave that day, which was a relief. Azur wasn't sure he had enough strength even after his rest last night to do almost anything if a new rift had been created into another dimension.
Admittedly, Zoe was quite concerned about Ahiru's behavior, she had barely spoken a few sentences with her and her mother since returning from Luna's camp, which made her uneasy about all of this, but she didn't want to force anything. Currently, Zoe was in the middle of sparring with Slash, who had recently returned from his scouting and seemed just as lost in thought as Zoe. It was clear as day that they weren't focused on what was going on around them and that they were barely even trying to do any of the training, and none of them dared to be the first to speak a single word. This of course did not go unnoticed by Elder Kira who watched them the whole time waiting to see if the two would return back to earth, but that didn't seem to be the case. - Zoe, Slash- He called them, because if they continued at this pace, there might still be unwanted incidents. Finally, the two of them returned back to the ground among the others, all confused, not following the situation around them, thinking that they actually missed something, but the others around them did not stop sparring so that they themselves realized that they somehow got into trouble.
They followed Elder Kir to the exit of the tribe until he stopped and started. - Okay you two, what's going on in your head so much that you can't focus on training.- Zoe and Slash didn't know what to say or how to express themselves, especially Zoe. After yesterday's charade, she didn't even have a moment to think about what actually happened because everything happened too fast. On the other hand, Slash was quite surprised when he returned to the tribe yesterday without being able to find his younger brother, and when they explained to him what happened, he rushed off with Claw to explain a few things to him. It's one thing when you doubt and refuse to trust someone because almost everyone of their kind has only brought you misfortune, but to attack the young of your own kind in a cave where anything can happen if you release too much power... He had some ,,good,, words and the punches that he couldn't wait to show him, but when he caught him at Geo, who was examining Claw's muzzle which was quite swollen and some blood was coming from his mouth, as well as a couple of huge bruises on his arms. , Looks like Luna took good care of him." he thought unable to hide the small sneer from his face which disappeared the next second.
When he saw that Claw wasn't squirming, yelling or showing any signs of anger like when he lost the bet in the race, the already lost, disgraced and lifeless body of the sculpture was staring at the ground. Even his aura had lost the dark cloud that had surrounded him from the moment they met and had dissipated continuously until this moment. Slash knew that Claw must have sensed him he approaches him even though he didn't move a millimeter, trying to look him or anyone else in the eyes as if he was waiting for Slash and the others to repeat the same lesson again, which never came. Looking at him in his almost desperate mental and emotional state right now Slash decided not to make a scene now but just go back to his duties for the day.
He never expected to see the day when someone would shatter his ego and pride, nor that he would hang Azur the way he imagined weak and lost look, out of this world. This early morning before dawn when Azur was heading towards the crystal caves and Slash was returning from the spring where he was drinking water, they met and Slash noticed traces of unusual behavior from Azur. Usually, Azur would be the one who would answer first or surprise him with his presence on the contrary, because when he approached him, Azur somehow acted as if he woke him up from his deep thoughts. Not only that morning, he was eating quite slowly, but as usual, he seemed to be eating away at him from the inside, but he refused to share anything with him, which only seemed even more suspicious. This was not the behavior of his best friend who never let his true emotions show on his face, who never cared to say anything no matter what you pushed him without hiding anything, he was always focused never absent like now. This was enough to tell him that something was really wrong.
Kira waited for at least one of them to answer him, but it seemed like there was no point in waiting for their answer any longer, so he decided to start the conversation first, having an idea of what it was about at the moment. - It's related to what happened yesterday, right?- Both of them just nodded their heads, still not having the appropriate words to explain, they just nodded their heads to which Kira just continued. – I am not surprised. After all you three are the closest with her besides riolus so you are more worried. - They didn't need to be told who the third member of their team was, but not many people paid attention to that because Kira continued immediately. - After the training you can visit them together with Azur, so get serious now.- Again they just nodded and returned to training this time with their heads out of the clouds on the ground where they should have been from the very beginning. But Zoe was having a hard time concentrating even now, because no one wanted to tell her what really happened after she left Rio and Luca. The last thing she saw there was Ahiru trying to bring back the omniscient Azure who was standing like a statue immovable from Luna, which made almost all of them panic, especially Mio.
Some time passed after Kira addressed Zoe and Slash. The sun was slowly starting to set, which meant that any gachasa Azure would have to join the two of them as they waited for him at the tribe's exit. Usually, a short wait would be a problem for them, but they were itching to find out the details of what exactly happened yesterday, and no one wanted to say a word to them. - It's unusual for Azur to be this late.- Slash muttered, not hiding his impatience, as well as the fact that Zoe doesn't say a word at all, knowing full well that she has a million questions like him. Not wanting to admit it, she agreed a lot with Slash about Azur's unusual delay, although she already assumed that some of the elders must have held him back, or that the troublesome duo riolus was back in action since they probably found out about this little visit they were planning. This brought a small smile to Zoe's face, unable to believe how close she had actually become to Luka, Rio, and Mio since Luna came.
At first, Rio was just a childish troublemaker to her who never listened to anything he was told and had the ability to disappear in a second. And now Rio seemed quite different in her eyes than before. The little riolu himself was looking for a chance to prove himself and show that he could be helpful, full of curiosity and an amazing gift for sneaking and hiding his aura signal when necessary. Although in most cases his misdemeanors get him into a lot of trouble. Luka, who seemed like an incredibly shy kid, not daring to talk and easily agreeing to all Rio's nonsense, was actually just being considerate and didn't want to say something inappropriate or offend anyone, he also had a lot of guts when he willingly agreed to distract to others while Rio sneaks out as well as a talent for quick adaptation. She thought Mio was an almost identical copy of her brother, and that's where she was most mistaken. Biting like a little snake when you step on her blister, she's definitely not quiet and it's scary how competitive she is. If she underestimated and misanalyzed the three of them like that, who knows what else the little ones would be able to do without her even being aware of it.
Finally, after a long, seemingly eternal wait, Azur joined them with two more lucarios dreaming. - What is he doing here!- Slash asked in a bitter open tone looking at Claw angrily as he stood a few steps behind Azure along with Ahiru. Zoe didn't seem any nicer either when the claw was actually the reason they got into all this shit. - Don't worry, Zoe won't cause problems this time. Actually, the reason why we are going with you is so that he can apologize.- Somehow that was not enough to convince them that everything will go smoothly regarding this visit. No normal lucario would cause problems when he is in such deep trouble as Claw, but after all no normal lucario would attack the little riolu and look what happened. So the guarantee that he will act like you and just apologize is very small as well as that Marina will not try to strangle him along with the rest of the family. - For his sake I hope.- Zoe answered in a threatening voice.
Azur didn't say a word the whole time, just watching her out of the corner of his eye to see what Claw was going to do or say, but he just nodded and nodded in understanding, then they headed to Luna's camp but instead of running as usual they walked . Which gave them enough time to exchange a few words and ask questions that they thought would put the others in a good situation. - Speaking of behavior. What's wrong with you today Azur.- Slash asked him, as usual not being able to hold his tongue anymore regardless of whether it was the right moment or not. Instead of giving him another lesson about keeping his mouth shut as usual, Zoe continued. - He is right, Azur. What you did last night was extremely reckless and dangerous, which doesn't look like you at all.- Azure this time took his eyes off Claw and looked at Zoe who was kind of furious and confused by his actions last night, as if she was all confused about Luna's aura and fighting Claw wasn't enough. Azur himself said in front of the Elder last night what he said he had about it, but he knew that Slash wouldn't let him go until he got all the answers he wanted, and Zoe, who was keeping him company in all of this, was just fuel fire. He decided not to talk about it until they got to camp not wanting to say anything that happened during his walk through Luna's mind. - When we get there I'll tell you.- After that he didn't say a word until they reached the camp, no matter how much Slash and Zoe tried to get anything out of him.
There were only a couple of lucarios in the cap that were almost completely recovered, and Mrs. Natsha was with Raichu keeping her company as the twins lay quietly next to Luna who was still as unconscious as when they left the camp last night. Luna's parents were nowhere to be seen and neither was Professor Oak, which seemed odd to them because no parent would leave their child alone in a situation like this, especially since it almost ended fatally. The first to notice the five lucarios was Raichu who greeted them with a gentle smile even though he was very tired as evidenced by his dark circles under his eyes and slow movement.
When they approached within a few meters of Luna and the twins, Raichu noticed Claw who was trying to get as far as possible in the back, not wanting to make a sweeping alima, but it didn't work because even the twins noticed him. The twins moved even closer to Luna, and took guard not even trying to hide their hostile attitude towards Claw, especially Sunny who wasn't trying to hide her growl at all but was trying to hold back from attacking. Raichu stood between Luna and the group looking straight at Claw. Without saying hello to the others, he directly addressed Claw in a cold tone - You really have the nerve to show your face here after all you've done. He also thanked Arceus because Marina isn't here right now but went with Josh to get a few things at their camp and that Luna is alive, otherwise he would have already been buried six feet under the ground.- You could see the shame on Claw's face and that he didn't dare raise his head to look at Raichu or the twins. Azur turned to Raichu not wanting this to continue because as much as he was mad at Claw and wanted to make sure he really learned his lesson, he knew this wasn't the right way to go about it.
- Raichu, Claw came with us to apologize and not cause problems.- Raichu then looked at Azur with a somewhat surprised look, not believing that Claw could experience a change of heart over nothing. Raichu didn't have anything to say about that, that is, nothing nice actually, but he wanted to see how sorry that idiot really was. - Yes, it's all great and wonderful, but it doesn't change the fact that because of your bloated, egotistical, man-hating hollow fucking thing you call your head, none of this would have happened! - Sunny broke down and started yelling at the top of her voice with traces of tears in her eyes that formed from anger as her body trembled with it. - Enough Suuny.- Raichu threatened her, not wanting to start another incident and cause even more damage than what was already done. - Raichu, this time I agree with Sunny. We almost lost Luna last night, so his apologies mean nothing right now. - The twins were right and everyone knew it. This time it was Ahiru who tried to calm the situation before it got out of control. - Starting a new fight won't help and it won't mean anything either.- but Ahiru didn't know that with these words she only added fuel to the twins' fire, while Slash, Zoe and Azure knew that the purple pink pokemon with her temperament had no chance of keeping this quiet. - Listen here grandma. Bringing this garbage here to ,, apologize,, won't help at all either so don't tell me the story here.- This time it was Ahiru who started to lose her patience with silly Sunny. When Elder Fang warned her about the temper possessed by the overgrown lilac cat, she didn't know she had such a sharp tongue and hot head. "Will you shut up for once? You just make my head hurt more." Luna spoke in a hoarse weak voice as she rubbed her eyes to get used to what little light was left from the slowly setting sun.
The twins snuggled up against Luna rubbing their heads together. and moaned against Luna's cheeks at the same time shouting her name as Luna hugged them even though she could barely move her numb arms Raichu and the others gathered around her asking hundreds of questions like,,how are you,,,,are you in pain ,, can you get up,,... Claw was the only one standing in the same place as before watching the others gather around Luna with relief on their faces. With all the commotion Natasha also quickly rushed to Luna and grabbed her in a tight hug and with relief it was as if a stone had fallen from her heart. "Crazy child, do you have any idea how much you've worried us?" Lunna couldn't do anything but smile awkwardly knowing that she must have given the others a good scare, especially Raichu and the twins who also wouldn't let go of their embrace. But as much as Luna loved them, the hug had become so much tighter that she could hardly even breathe so she said in her still partially unsteady voice. ,, Too tight,.. needs air.." then Natasha together with Raichu and the twins released the moon at the same second not wanting to pass out again when she woke up just a minute ago.
"You seem like you're okay now. I have to let your parents and Professor Oak know, they'll be glad you've regained consciousness." With the team, Natasha went to her tent after the phone to cheer up Marina, while the others took their places around Luna who started the conversation,, And, what did I miss ?" she asked in a soft caring voice trying to lighten the situation up a bit. But it seems that she didn't really like her hand because a second later. - What did you miss?! That's seriously the first thing you ask. Oh young lady you have no idea how you scared us, we almost had a heart attack when Azure brought you here. Where in the name of Arceus was your brain when you tried to use your abilities when you yourself are aware that you are not able to control them. You almost died you dumbass!- After which Raichu stopped and panted heavily as he said everything at once and the stress he was holding inside finally got to him. The others looked at him in silence, surprised, because it was the first time they saw him so angry and upset about Luna.
He's usually relaxed, joking around and giving Luna warnings and criticisms from time to time, and sometimes even a small argument. But they had never seen him so deadly serious, stressed, angry... At all this, Luna looked into his eyes for a second, after which her facial expression softened and her eyes filled with guilt and an apologetic look. Then she slowly and gently embraced him, burning through the exhaustion, stiffness and pain in her muscles, and said softly. "I'm sorry, I must have worried you a lot." After a few moments, Raichu calmed down and returned the hug and then answered her. - You'll never change, will you?- To which Luna just nodded her head with a slight smile. A moment later, Zoe punched her in the arm, not hard enough to hurt her but hard enough to cause a slight pain, to which Luna yelped. - That's because you scared riolus and me to death. Ever since you collapsed in the tribe they haven't stopped worrying about you.- This made Luna feel even worse because the last thing she wanted to do was worry about the little ones in the tribe. Luna noticed Claw watching them not daring to approach them not wanting to interrupt their conversation and patiently waiting to be noticed. Which didn't take long because Luna soon noticed him and looked him directly in the eyes.
But there wasn't even a hint of anger, intolerance, mistrust in her eyes... his presence didn't cause the slightest tension in Luna. What's more, she looked at him like any other friend of hers, which surprised him a lot. Especially what she said next. "Why is he standing there like a statue, sit with us." Little could be said that this surprised everyone but Raichu. After that outburst in the Zoe tribe, Slash and Azure were surprised that she just forgave him after all those accusations. , tries to make her feel inferior, weak to prove to her that she doesn't belong here and even get into a fight with her. The twins weren't something found of Claw, after all he had done to their Luna, so they kept a close eye on his every move. Ahiru looked at him and motioned for him to come over when he was already invited to join them. He knelt down a few steps away from them just across from Luna and lowered his head saying. -I'm very sorry for my immature behavior as well as that that you ended up in this situation because of my thoughtless mistake.- This time they were waiting for Luna's answer, because after all she ended up on the brink of death because of him, so no one expected the next either. ,, Don't worry silly, I'm already in you I said sorry before I passed out. And when we as for the apology, I'm sorry for hitting you like that when we were outside the cave in front of everyone." This time almost all the lucarios except Azur had their jaws drop to the floor, unable to believe that Luna was apologizing after everything. Anyone else would be angry or scared after a near death experience, and the girl in front of them is smiling and apologetic on top of it all.
Azur couldn't lie to himself and say that he hadn't expected this kind of hand at the same time as he was surprised. After all this is the Luna they're talking about and after what they saw of her last night and what Raichu told him, somehow it made sense in some twisted and strange way. Claw was in complete disbelief at what he had just heard, especially the part where she was apologizing when he was the main culprit. When everyone wanted to ask her if she was serious, Luna raised her hand and continued with the story. "It takes two to fight, so you are not the only one to blame." Secondly, during the last few years, there were situations where a lot of them apologized to me, but those were just words. No one saw their Greek or tried to correct it somehow, just empty words." They remained listening intently as Luna continued to speak. "You could have waited in the tribe for me to come when I recovered and just apologize and be done with it. with that. But instead you came to see for yourself how much damage you caused and apologize sincerely. And I doubt something like this will happen again anytime soon. You learned your lesson the hard way.
Claw somehow felt a great weight lift off his heart while at the same time he didn't believe he deserved such easy forgiveness from Luna. After all, only twenty-four hours ago, Luna was fighting for her life in this very place because of him, and from what Ahiru told him, if Azur hadn't acted quickly and risked his own life, we wouldn't be having this conversation now. - But you almost didn't..- Luna didn't let him finish the sentence, not wanting to return to a dark topic that didn't please anyone, so she continued. ,, Survive. Yes, yes I know. What do you say we start over and this is all water under the bridge." then Luna held out her hand in front of her trying to hide her trembling from the others, while you looked at her and heard what she was going to say next, "Hello, I'm Luna Blackwood, I hope that from now on they will get along well and be good friends." There was a dead silence between them for almost two full minutes, when suddenly they all burst out laughing at Luna's childish and naive behavior at that moment.
Raichu began to wipe away the tears that had formed from laughing too hard, Something like this only Luna can say., thinking. After laughing, Claw held out his paw and shook her hand and answered. - My name is Claw, nice to meet you.- He then let her go which was a relief to Luna because she didn't know how long she could keep her hand in the air without hiding her true state right now. - You can't act normal for a second, can you.- Zoe who had a smirk on her face trying to joke with Luna in her sarcastic way which Luna retorted. "It's not my fault that you haven't realized that I'm not. You had more than enough time and more than enough clues to come to that conclusion on your own, thank you very much." This time Luna caught Zoe in her joke trap, but that's why Slash intervened and continued. -It's not very polite to talk to someone's face. that he is not normal forces him to be crazy. - And that's where Luna was waiting for them with the following words. ,,And treating them like criminals and trash is decent for you. " Ahiru, Zoe and Slash were speechless with surprised frozen expressions as you all found themselves in that statement while Luna looked at them with her best puppy eyes she could do innocently snickering.
Azur, Raichu and the twins were laughing because Luna this time she managed them well and made them make fools of themselves. Luna didn't want to stop there though so she continued. "Something's wrong, did skitty take your tongue?" This time Zoe had had enough and decided to threaten. - When you recover, we have to start with even stricter training to make up for what you missed. And believe me this time I won't hesitate.- This time it was Luna who tensed up while the others laughed. But she didn't care about that, the important thing was that everything had ended well and that she would surely recover quickly, even though after her recovery she was awaited by the torture that Zoe had just promised her. "I won't either. You saw me launch the Claw, with a little more practice it could be you." everyone fell silent at that moment and Raichu was the first to speak. - Luna you can't lose control like that and let your emotions rule we talked about it .- Luna shook her head because she knew that at the time she was attacking Claw she had full control over her powers. This time it wasn't them dictating what would happen but Luna was the one who knew exactly what she was doing the whole time. The only problem is was that the aura was still causing immense pain throughout her entire body. Not like before but it was there. What made the problem was that she didn't know how to bring it all back without letting it all out would cause an even bigger disaster.
"But I was in full control. The only problem is that I couldn't get all that aura back." Raichu and the others seemed a bit confused because they were aware that during the entire fight Luna was emitting her aura like crazy but she didn't let it get out of control and instead focused it on attacks. While Azur decided to finally speak up and share something he discovered as well. - That or that you were preventing it from leaving your body.- All attention was directed towards him this time because no one understood what it was about, but Raichi still asked. - You mean Aura Devouring?- But Azur just shook his head which confused him even more until Luna had no idea what it was like they were talking in another language. - Luna never even had Aura Devouring. Rather, it was just an excess of aura that she couldn't deal with, so she pushed it deep inside her instead of using it, which she didn't know and had no one to teach her or simply emit to the environment or transfer to someone. All that aura accumulated over time until it became what we all witnessed yesterday.- With those words, everything made sense to Ahiru again. Luna's incredible bulk was the result of constant suppression and not simply an innate metabolism.
That's why she was able to achieve such speed, to quickly improve her physical abilities and live this long and her small constitution was only inherited from someone in her family.,, Okay, timeout. Can someone please explain to me first what Aura Devouring is and then we can continue." Ahiru explained to her as she did to the others last night as Luna listened intently. When she finally finished explaining Luna threw her arms above her head in happiness shouting, , Does life have mercy." this time a slight smile appeared on Raichu's face and the twins fully understood and shared the relief Luna was feeling. - When you think it can't get any worse, and you realize it can, but it doesn't. - Raichu commented. They always thought that the situation could not be worse than it is. Constant vigilance so as not to lose control over the powers, careful not to accidentally reveal them, to survive the pain and energy during accidental outbursts. And considering that she managed to live until now and was able to develop devouring, she is simply one of the better news in this whole set.
Azur understood Luna completely, especially after yesterday's trip down her memory lane, because it could have been a lot worse if Ahiru had been right. - Did you see anything while you were in her head.- Zoe's words froze in the moon's body until the last drop of blood she had, causing panic that she hid as best she could behind her mask, worrying about what he could see. This time Ahiru and Azure gave Zoe a stern irritated look as they didn't want to bring up the subject, at least not in front of the others. On the other hand, this only irritated Zoe, who flinched and continued. - Don't pretend that you expected this issue not to come to light. Yesterday, despite the warning, you acted very risky when you decided to absorb and manipulate Luna's aura without thinking first. It's a miracle that you both survived.- This only worried Luna even more and made her feel guilty because she didn't want to drag anyone into this, especially if they got hurt because of her. What's more, if she hadn't been so risky and if she had thought for a second, she could have prevented the fight from happening. But the one good thing about all of this is that the Claw will come off her neck and to get up to control the aura she just needs to find a way to get it back. Seeing the agitation and stress beginning to build up in Luna, Ahiru stood up and ordered. - Claw, Zoe, Slash. We're going back.- When Zoe and Slash wanted to rebel, she immediately cut them down. - Now. Sometimes it's better that we don't know the answer to some things and give the others a little privacy. - Claw was already on thin ice, so he immediately got up without any hesitation, while Slash and Zoe knew out of fear when Ahiru was this serious that if they didn't listen, she would have them dragged back by grace or force, so there was no room for them to complain. As Raichu, Luna, twins i along with Azur watched them leave and slowly disappear from their sight, you could feel that the atmosphere was getting more serious every second. After they were out of sight Luna turned to Azure and asked him uncertainly with traces of fear. "What exactly happened and what did you see?"