Difference and Acceptance
It's a lazy, hot summer day, and Luna doesn't want to do anything. Roxas suggests they go and pick berries, and says that Luna can take Lucas with her. They go to pick berries and Luna sees an old friend.
Its a hot summer day. Luna looks up at the sky with the sun beating down on everything, and yawns as she pokes a flower while laying on her stomach, wings fluttering lazily every so often. She didn't want to do anything in particular that day, since it was so hot. Roxas came over to where she was and smiled. "I have an idea, why don't we go pick berries? you can even bring Lucas with you if you want." Then he ruffled the fur on her head and went to talk to Emerald. "I think that's a good idea" said Emerald "the trees will shade us and keep us cool." Luna got up, "ok momma, that sounds fun." They went to go see if Lucas wanted to go, after grabbing some baskets Emerald had made.
Luna ran ahead of Emerald and Roxas to the hill where Lucas lived. She slowly tiptoed up behind him and tapped on his shoulder. "yipe!" said Lucas as he jumped into the air. Then he saw Luna behind him. "Wha-Luna? what are you doing here?" "I came to see if you wanted to come pick berries with me." Lucas nodded and went to ask his parents. "Ok, just don't be gone too long." Maria said. Russell smiled at his son and said, "run along and have fun." Lucas grabbed Luna's paw and they ran down to Emerald and Roxas, laughing as they ran. They walked into the forest to where the berry patches were, Luna looking everywhere at all the berries, amazed at all the kinds, more than she had seen back when she was with her old pack.
Emerald and Roxas picked berries, but it seemed that Luna and Lucas ate more berries than they put in the baskets. Soon Luna started laughing, Lucas looked at her with a confused look on his face. "What?" asked Lucas. "Y-your face! hahaha! you have berry juice covering your face! hahaha!" Emerald looked over and chuckled as well, then came over and wiped the juice off of Lucas' face. Lucas giggled as Emerald wiped the juice off, but then Luna and Lucas stopped laughing when they heard a noise. *Stomp* *Stomp* *Stomp* footsteps were heard coming towards them. Roxas got in front of Luna, Lucas and Emerald to protect them, and Luna gasped when she saw who it was! It was the ursaring she had seen back when her parents were killed! "Ursaring!" Luna yelled and ran towards the large bear pokemon and the ursaring laughed and caught Luna, swinging her into the air before hugging her. "It's great to see you again Ursaring!"
"Hey, there girlie!" he said, "How have you been?" Luna looked up at Ursaring. "I've been great! I even found a new pack! come meet my parents!" She jumped down and ran to Emerald and Roxas. "Ursaring, meet my new mom and dad, This is Emerald," Emerald waved, "and this is Roxas." Roxas glared at him for a few minutes, then smiled, "nice to meet you Ursaring!" said Roxas. "Yes, it's nice to meet you," said Emerald.
"Before I came to the pack, my momma and daddy had been killed by houndoom, but then ursaring came and helped me and made me feel better. Then, I left and found the pack." Luna explained. "he's really nice." Ursaring nodded and then grabbed Luna and noogied her, causing her to squeal with laughter before breaking away and saying, "oh yeah, and this is my new friend, Lucas." Lucas looked up at the large bear pokemon with wide eyes. Luna noticed the look on Lucas' face and said "don't worry, he won't hurt you."
Ursaring smiled and grabbed Lucas and swung him onto his shoulders. "weee!" Lucas said as ursaring carried him through the forest. Roxas, Emerald and Luna grabbed the baskets and followed ursaring. They walked through the forest until they came to the meadow again. Ursaring put Lucas down and waved goodbye, the group waved back and went to show off the berries they found. They had a lot so everyone in the pack got to have berries for lunch. Luna enjoyed trying the different kinds she hadn't seen before, and eating the ones she was familier with, especially pecha berries, her favorite. Lucas liked oran berries, and ate so many he got berry juice on his face again.
Once everyone was full they either laid down for a nap or relaxed in the shade, since it was still hot it was too hot to do much. When evening came it cooled down a little and the riolus scattered to play together before bedtime. Luna called her friends over and she and Lucas and John, Mick, and Sabrina got to play Leapfrog, and tag and other games before they had to go home for the night. "Bye Lucas! I had fun today!" Lucas nodded, "me too." They said goodbye to their friends and went home, wondering what they would do tomorrow.