Difference and Acceptance
Luna and Lucas explore a meadow that Luna imagines as a Savanna. They encounter a Luxray pride as well.
and I named the old pyroar after my pyroar Xanxus on my pokemon Y version.
also Thumbs up if you get the Lion King refrence
Luna tiptoed through the grass, which was slightly taller than she was. Lucas giggled quietly from where he was hiding, they were playing hide and seek. Luna listened to the rustling noise the grass made as she moved through it. Peeking through a patch of grass she saw she was behind Lucas. Grinning, she pounced on his back, scaring him. "Agh! oh, hi Luna." Luna just giggled as she sat on his back, pinning him to the ground. "Get off of me, your crushing me, can't...breathe..." Luna got off and helped him up. They walked through the grass together, holding paws so they wouldn't get lost. Soon they came upon a huge boulder, and with a little trouble, got up on top of it. From there they could see over the grass.
Luna panted a little before ruffling her wings and sitting down. Lucas was laying on his back, panting. After awhile the two looked over the grass, noticing the patches of ground that occasionally showed through. "You know..." Luna said. "It kinda looks like a savanna." "It kinda does." Lucas agreed. And as they looked, different pokemon appeared. There were girafarigs, donphans with little phanpys, a pool of sand with a few hippowdon in it, a herd of zebstrika ran by, while a flock of Mandibuzz flew through the air. Lounging on the ground in the shade of a large rock while a Luxray sat on top was a pride of Luxray and a few luxio and shinx. A lone male pyroar went to a watering hole for a drink.
Climbing down from the boulder, they looked around at everything as they walked, even seeing a few aipom in one of the trees. Luna stopped and looked up as she watched a girafarig eating leaves from one of the trees. He was a young girafarig, but he was able to reach the tree if he put his front hooves on the trunk of the tree. The girafarig saw her looking at him and lowered his head. "Hey, there!" he said. "What are you doing?" "We're exploring!" Luna told him. "Exploring? sounds fun, I'm Stretch, and this," he nodded towards his tail, "is Chomp." Chomp turned his head toward them and smiled, Lucas reached out to pet him and Chomp snapped at his hand and gave him a cheeky grin. "Now, now, Chomp, behave." Stretch told Chomp. Lucas just watched Chomp carefully, "Lets go, Luna." Luna nodded and they waved goodbye to Stretch, who was talking to Chomp.
Walking over to the large sand pit, Lucas walked over the sand and sat down. "Uh, Lucas, I wouldn't sit there if I were you..." Lucas wondered why and then he felt something rumble underneath him and was launched into the air by a stream of sand. "Whoa! get me off this thi-ing!" Said Lucas as he bobbed and tumbled on top of the sand fountain. Soon he was lowered down and he went back to where Luna was, and whatever the thing was that made the sand fountain came up from the sand. "Well, you should have watched where you were sitting." Said the hippowdon that came up, "I had to get you off of my back somehow." "Sorry, we just came over to see what was here, and Lucas decided to go and sit on the sand, I don't know why." She said while looking at Lucas. Lucas shrugged and the hippowdon said, "Well just be careful." They thanked him and went on, wondering what they would see next.
Lucas saw the herd of Donphan and went over, but didn't get too close, and watched a female Donphan and her baby Phanpy. Luna crept up quietly to crouch beside him, not making a sound. They watched the Donphan as they fed and played together. A curious young phanpy came over, and squeaked out an attempt at a trumpet. Luna smiled at the little pokemon and patted him on the head. A Donphan spotted them and came over, Luna and Lucas looked up at the Donphan, who was bigger than both of them, casting a shadow over them. The little phanpy squeaked a trumpet greeting and walked over to her, bumping her leg affectionately. The female Donphan stroked her son with her trunk then turned her gaze to Luna and Lucas.
"I see my son has made some friends." She said as she looked at them. Luna nodded, "yes, he's very cute, and friendly too." The phanpy smiled and walked over to her again, softly bumping her, like he wanted to play. The mother Donphan watched as Luna and her son playfully chased each other, then a male Donphan appeared. He trumpeted angrily and charged at Luna, but the female donphan blocked him. Luna and Lucas watched in awe as they watched her block the slightly larger Donphan. "Now, calm down, Vince! They weren't hurting our son." Vince shook his head, "I don't care," he grumbled, "I don't want strange pokemon coming here and playing with my son." He stomped off and the female donphan watched him leave and sighed. She turned back to the two, "I'm sorry," she sighed again, "but I better go, I don't want him to hurt you." She motioned for her son to follow and walked off.
"What was that all about?" Lucas asked. Luna shrugged and they walked off, as they approached the water hole they had to step back to avoid being trampled by a Zebstrika herd. Lucas sweatdropped, "that was close." "Too close." Luna agreed, and they went to the water hole, where the male pyroar they had seen was resting in the shade and licking a wound on his paw. Luna gasped, "Grandpa? are you ok?" She ran over to the pyroar, who stopped licking his paw to smile at her. He was old, the white streaking his mane and the wrinkles on his face showed that. "Oh, its just a small injury, im fine." he said as she came over and looked at the wound. "It looks like a bite wound." She said. She went over to the water and cupped some in her hands, careful not to spill it. She let the water drop on the injury, washing the blood away, then, using a leaf, she used it like a bandage to cover it.
"So, are you really Luna's grandpa?" Lucas asked as they pyroar tried to stand, and after several attempts he managed to. "No, but I'm so old and my name, Xanxus, is hard for her to say, so I let her call me grandpa." "oooh" Lucas nodded in understanding and Luna had to ask, "so what happened to you?" Xanxus sighed, "Well I was once the leader of my own pride here, but one day a Luxray challenged me for my spot and even though I tried so hard, I lost," he chuckled a little after that, "I guess im not as strong as I used to be." Luna hugged him, "don't say that, grandpa, you'll always be strong and powerful to me." Xanxus smiled and nuzzled the top of her head, making her giggle. Xanxus decided he wanted to stay where he was for awhile before trying to walk so with a parting wave, Luna and Lucas were off again.
They didn't get very far before Luna heard six young voices call her name and then was pounced on by six young shinx cubs, all of them licking her. haha! q-quit, that t-tickles! hahaha!" Luna laughed while trying to get the shinx off of her. Lucas just giggled as he watched. After Luna got the shinx off of her, she got a good look at what pounced on her. She gasped when she saw the shinx cubs, "guys! its been so long since I saw you!" The shinx had been little cubs the last time Luna came to visit. "You've gotten so big!" She turned to Lucas, "these are my friends, Sparky, Zap, Blitz, Jackie and Sparkz." Sparky playfully pounced on her and as they playfully wrestled, a Luxray came over and she looked up from where she was laying on the ground. "Oh, Hey King Thunderclap, long time no see." She said as she got up and Sparky went over to his brothers.
Thunderclap smiled, I see my sons found you." he said with an amused smile. "It's been awhile since your last visit." Luna got up, and hugged the Luxray, "I know, and I'm sorry, I've been busy." They walked to see the rest of Thunderclap's pride, a couple of the Luxio, who were a little bit older than the shinx, smiled as they saw Luna. Laying on the rock with a few other Luxray was an unusual pokemon. She was an absol, with the usual snowy white fur, and her claws, tail, face and horn were grey. Her eye's were a sparkling green color, she was beautiful. Luna approached the Absol and curtsied as well as she could, "hello, Queen Snowfall." Queen Snowfall looked at the riolu in front of her, "It's lovely to see you again, Luna." Her gaze then went to the bundle of fur curled up at her side.
The fur moved to reveal an absol cub. Her eyes were light blue, and she had a bump on her head showing her growing absol horn. Instead of being grey, her claws, tail, and face were red, she was a shiny absol! She looked up at Luna and closed her eyes as her mother licked her head. "She's beautiful!" Luna said to Snowfall. "What's her name?" She asked. "Thank you," Snowfall thanked her, "her name is Jewel." Luna gently picked Jewel up, and cradled her. "Come over here, Lucas." She called her friend over so he could see the absol cub. He came over and was amazed at the sight of the shiny absol cub. They sat down with Jewel in Luna's lap. Lucas reached over and gently stroked Jewel on her head, she licked his paw, making him giggle. Lucas decided to hold Jewel for awhile, Luna got pounced on by one of the Luxio, Ray, "We didn't finish our game from last time, he said.
That led to some playfully wrestling, with Ray and Luna tumbling around on the ground and Thunderclap watching them, then Luna had Ray pinned down. "Pinned ya." She said with a grin. "Let me up." Ray pushed Luna off and they started wrestling again. Luna soon had Ray pinned down again, "pinned you again." Thunderclap chuckled, "looks like she won, Ray." Ray grumbled and pushed Luna off again. Luna went back to Lucas and picked up Jewel before sitting down. The little absol head butted her paw and laid down on her lap. As they talked about what they had missed since Luna's last visit Lucas noticed that the sun was starting to set. He poked Luna's arm, "Hey, it's getting late, we better get home now." Luna noticed the sun setting, "your right Lucas." She took Jewel over to Snowfall and they prepared to leave. Ray playfully tugged one of Luna's wings, "I'll get you next time," he smirked. "Yeah, right." Luna laughed.
As they walked home they couldn't wait to tell their parents about the fun they had that day.