Difference and Acceptance

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Luna sat under a tree, watching the rain fall with a miserable look on her face. With Summer's end drawing near, it had begun to rain more. On a normal day Luna would be playing with Lucas or out sitting in a patch of daisies that made lovely flower crowns. But today it was raining, and she decided to stay out of the rain. Some of the others didn't seem to mind though, a couple lucario were out in the rain, enjoying the feeling of it falling onto them.

Emerald and Roxas weren't bothered, in fact they were out in the rain, dancing like they were still young lucario, not even caring that they were getting soaked. Emerald looked over, green eyes sparkling, "come on, Luna! come and dance with us." Luna shook her head no. As she watched them, she wondered if Lucas was miserable too. But Lucas was out in the rain as well. He loved rain, and he went over to try to get Luna to come out and have fun in the rain with him.

Lucas spotted her, sitting under that tree and walked over, stopping in front of her. "Hey, Luna, wanna come and play with me?" Luna just shook her head again, "no, i'll wait for the rain to stop." Lucas sat down next to her, "why?" Luna glared at him, "cause then my wings get wet and it's hard to get water out of the feathers." Lucas thought for a minute, then got up. "come on," he tried to get Luna up as well. "come play with me." Luna sighed, "fine." She got up and stepped out into the rain with Lucas.

Once she was out in the rain, Luna shook her wings to get the rain off and just stood there, "okay, now what?" Lucas just grinned at her and grabbed her paws. "Now, we spin!" They spun in a circle, rain hitting them and soaking their fur, but Lucas didn't care, and as Luna spun she started to ignore the rain, and began to laugh, enjoying the fun she was having with her friend.

Russell watched his son from his spot on the hill. His mouth twitched upward into a smile as he saw how happy he was. Maria came over and placed a paw on his shoulder as she watched the two play. Then Russell sighed, as a thought hit him. "Well, soon it will be time to gather food and start our journey to the Winter caves. Luna probably hasn't done something like that before." Maria had to agree, "I know dear," she sighed too, "but we'll just have to see what happens." Maria had gone on the journey several times before, ever since she was mated to Russell. She wasn't sure if Luna would be able to make the journey to the caves or not.

After several hours of playing in the rain, it stopped. The clouds cleared up and the sun shone, starting to dry everything. "Finally!" Luna said and shook herself, trying to get her fur dry, then started to dry her wings. She turned her head towards her her left wing, licking and tugging at the feathers, trying to dry them. Once she was satisfied, she started on her right wing. Lucas just watched her, amazed at how she could preen her wings like any bird pokemon did. "How do you do that?" Lucas asked when she was done. Luna shrugged, "I don't know, I used to watch the bird pokemon and soon I was preening my wings just like they do, it helps straighten the feathers and keep my wings looking nice

Unfortunately, one of the riolu that didn't like Luna had been watching, and began laughing. "Why were you licking your wings? are you trying to be a bird?" They began laughing again. "Shut up, Dustin!" Lucas said, "leave her alone!" Dustin smirked, "aww, are you trying to protect your girlfriend, pretty boy?" That made Lucas mad, "she's my friend! now leave her alone!" Dustin pushed Lucas down. "Lucas!" Luna tried to help him up but Dustin got in her way, "you stay out of this! this is between me and him." He then prepared to hit Lucas but a voice stopped him. "Dustin! what are you doing?"

A female lucario, having seen what happened, had yelled at her son. Dustin turned around. "What mom?" She came over and grabbed his paw, "you leave them alone! what did I tell you about bullying other riolu?" He glared, but didn't say anything. As his mom pulled him away, he just glared at Luna and Lucas. Luna reached out a paw and helped Lucas up. "Are you ok?" Luna asked him. Lucas nodded, "yeah i'm fine. Dustin'll probably leave us alone for now."

Luna grabbed his paw, "follow me." So they went over to where Luna's favorite patch of flowers was and sat down. Luna began to make a flower crown while Lucas watched some younger riolu jump in puddles. Luna snuck up behind Lucas and put the flower crown on his head, "fit for a prince." She smiled. "Huh?" He looked up, "oh, thanks!" Luna bowed than said, "now, my prince, what would you like to do now?" Lucas thought for a minute, then smiled. "First, I want my princess to have a crown." Luna nodded and began to make a crown for herself. She gave it to Lucas and he gently placed it on her head. "Now, let's go jump in puddles!"

He bowed, eyes closed and extending a paw to Luna, "Shall we go, My princess?" Luna giggled and took his paw, "yes, lets go." So they ran over to the puddles and Lucas jumped into one, splashing mud on Luna. She glared at him for a minute but then jumped in too, splashing him with mud. They jumped in the puddle, and got covered in mud, but they didn't care. Then, Lucas started laughing, Luna wondered what was so funny. "What?" Then she looked down, and noticed she was covered in mud. "Oh dear.. but your covered in mud too!" That made Lucas laugh harder.

When Russell saw the two he had to laugh, they were covered in mud and it was even dripping off of them. "Look at you two," He chuckled. "Your covered in mud! Run along and go get cleaned up." So Luna and Lucas chased each other to the river, laughing the whole time. They jumped into the water and began to wash the mud off, it was a little harder for Luna since her fur was pure white and she even had some mud in her wings. She rubbed at the mud then took a breath and dunked herself under the water. Once she came up for air, most of the mud was gone, so she washed off what was left, all she had to do now was clean her wings.

Luna got out of the river and shook herself to dry her fur, then watched Lucas as he washed the mud off himself, then got out of the river. Once he had shaken off to dry his fur, Luna groomed her wings and got them clean, then they headed home.

Little did Luna know what was going to be happening in a few days...

Looks like those two had fun in the rain! and yes Luna can preen her wings like a bird, but that just makes her more interesting ;)