CJ: Yes! Finally! Back with the newest chapter! Whoo-hoo! Ha ha-ha!
DB: Alright alright, settle down.
CJ: Sorry, thanks again though for proofreading this stuff, especially when you're busy with your own stories.
DB: (shrugs) Eh, its not that tough. Don't you have some, uh, notices to take care of?
CJ: Oh! Right! First off, there is a...slightly mature scene towards the end so if you aren't a teen, get out. It's rated T for a reason. Useless warning, but I still need to say it.
DB: (nods) And as for the text; "Regular Speech" looks like that, "Telepathy/Technological communications" are in double-quoted italics, 'Private thoughts' are in single quoted italics, and finally a single italic word in a sentence puts extra emphasis on it.
CJ: And for flashbacks, the above is reversed. So "Regular Speech" and "Telepathy" switch designs.
DB: Aye. So now, off you go. Enjoy the next chapter now that two of us are done talking.
"Hmmm… Looks like a decent restaurant," Ray remarks, back in his human form, idly fidgeting with his flight goggles.
"Mmm-hmm, and they let pokemon eat with the trainers too. I like it," Kara smiles.
They walk into the Italian restaurant and get greeted by a plump man with a very bushy mustache. He wasn't very tall, but seems like a kind person judging by his bright, friendly blue eyes. A tall white chef's hat sat on his head that hid his hair, and he wore the restaurant's white uniform; but something about him seemed more suited for a red outfit.
"Ah, hello sir. What a well-mannered Lucario you have there," The man compliments, giving Ray a friendly grin.
"Thank God he's not like the other impolite men." Ray chuckles before answering, "Yeah, she's really one of a kind," with a smile. Kara only blushes.
"A table for two?" The man asks, looking off towards a small, secluded booth.
Despite the attractive corner, Ray has to turn down the offer; he was here to meet with family after all. The two look at each other, and Kara sadly looked at Ray with puppy eyes. Ray sighed in his thoughts,
"I'll make it up to you later…"
"Actually, we're supposed to meet up with a group of-"
"Uncle Ray!" shouts a girl with a red and white cap, red flowing hair, golden eyes, a white tank top, and a red skirt; waving for his attention from a nearby round table. She sat with Pikachu (who occupied an elevated chair) Lorenzo, Bianca, and a boy with blue spiky hair wearing a thin red vest with a white T-shirt underneath, red eyes, and jeans. Those two were Josh and Lucia. Ray chuckles.
"That's them," He laughs, waving back to the group. The man turns to see the group before turning back to Ray.
"Ah, they did mention waiting for two more. Well, enjoy yourselves! How can I help you?" The man asks another group of people that just came in while Ray and Kara walk onward to the table, sitting in the two vacant, adjacent seats. Ray sat to Lorenzo's left, who sat to Bianca's left, who sat next to Pikachu, who sat next to Lucia, (Deep breath from author) who sat next to Josh, who is now beside Kara.
"What took you so long?" Lucia asks, putting her head on her hands while she propped her elbows against the table.
"We just got an apartment," Kara answers, resting her paws on her lap. A waitress quickly walks up, and sets two glasses of ice water in front of her and Ray. The two say their thanks, earning a smile from… The tag on her uniform said Sharon.
"Too bad there's nothing in it," Ray sighs. Kara nudges her fiancé.
"Don't worry about it! Come on, we're here to relax," Kara said playfully, "Although a bed would probably be nice."
A small wave of giggles and chuckles rolls through the group.
"If you guys need anything, we got some extra furniture," Lorenzo says, leaning back in his chair and straightening his back to stretch it.
"Extra?" Bianca asked. "Where?" Lorenzo paused.
"Right. We gave it away already haven't we?" Lorenzo stared at Bianca.
"Yeah… wait, to who?" Bianca asks back, a puzzled look on her face.
"It's okay. We'll manage," Ray remarked, resisting the urge to laugh at how old Lorenzo became. Lorenzo and Bianca nodded.
"Suit yourself. Now, what to eat," Lorenzo picked up a menu. Everybody picked one up, even Pikachu.
"That steak looks good," Kara says eying the picture of an eight ounce steak with sautéed mushrooms.
"So does that ravioli," Ray mumbles, looking at a plate filled with ravioli and pasta sauce with a sprinkling of cheese on top. Everybody found what they liked, even Pikachu. Kara with the eight ounce steak; Ray with the ravioli; Lucia, Josh, and Bianca taking a spaghetti with alfredo sauce; and Lorenzo selecting clam chowder.
Once a waiter arrives, he introduces himself while taking all the menus…except Pikachu's, since the mouse shook his head while the waiter reached for it.
"Hello, my name's Jim and I'll be your waiter today," He says politely enough but still looks stressed and busy. Even though he manages to keep eye contact with the group, he's also shooting quick glances at the rest of the tables around them; like he's anxious to get on with his job.
"Are you guys ready to order?" Everyone relayed their order before Pikachu set his menu down and pointed at a bow-tie pasta dish. Jim stares at Pikachu for a second before beginning to laugh; so much so that he doubles over. After getting up from the ordeal he looks a whole lot better.
"Hahaha, oh man." He mutters before sighing, "That's got to be the only relief I've gotten so far in my shift," the waiter looked at Pikachu. "Who's the trainer of this pokemon?" Lucia raised her hand,
"I am!" She quickly replies.
"You do know that that dish can make your little buddy sick right? Not severely, but he won't feel real good for a while." The waiter asks while scratching at his brown fluffy hair and blinking his brown eyes.
"He can manage," Lucia smiled at the waiter, "thank you though!"
Jim smiles back at the cute girl. "Okay, thank you for your orders. They'll be out soon." He says before going to a table across from theirs and back to his work.
"Busy place isn't it?" Ray asks Lorenzo, glancing over to the old man on his right.
"Oh yes, but they get their food out pretty quickly," Lorenzo replies.
"So when was this built? This wasn't here when I was," Ray commented, looking around at the slightly dim, pub-like area.
"If I remember, it opened about a month after you left."
"Talk about bad timing," Josh chuckles. Kara rests her paw on Ray's thigh, who almost shot up from surprise.
"Another place we can spend together. After all, you do owe me," Kara sweetly purrs, just loud enough for only Ray to hear. Ray quickly gets a spreading blush while putting his own hand on her paw.
"Yeah…" Everyone else mutters while uncomfortably shifting around at the sight. They didn't hear what Kara said, but they had a slight guess judging by their gazes. Bianca however, starts laughing.
"What?" Ray and Kara both ask. The human girl puts both her elbows on the table before resting her arms on the table as well.
"Awkward and embarrassing moments are always so funny," Bianca giggled. That's when they all started to reminisce about awkward and embarrassing moments, sharing some of them.
"Oh my God. I remember this one time when Lucy still had my human form, and we went out to eat some soup at a café. Once we got them soup, she buries her face into the soup and slurps. Then she starts flailing around with soup on her face because it was so hot! And the fact that she couldn't talk made it even funnier because she just pretty much danced around the café!" Bianca burst out laughing. Lucia grew a deep red as she guiltily giggled. Everybody laughed along with the two.
"Wait, when was this?" Josh scoffed at his sister on his right.
"When she was learning how to eat like a human!" Bianca laughed even harder. Lucia put on a "Hey!" face.
"Ahh, don't worry, It was more awkward for me, trust me." Bianca says as the laughter died down.
"Hey, you know how to eat, right?" Kara asks, prodding Josh with her elbow and teasing Lucia even more. Josh and Kara had a couple of more chortles before looking at the girl with a pout and crossed arms.
"We're just teasing Lucy," Kara sighed, imagining how awkward it must have been for both of them.
"Oh, here's an awkward moment," Lucia chirped.
(Excerpt from Trigger)
Cyphrus got out of the bed and realized that he was wrapped in bandages and he had a white patient's gown on him. Cyphrus poked his head out the door, looking left and right. He wondered why the hospital was quiet. He then found the five people in the waiting room. Latias was the only one awake, Latios' and Ash's head on her shoulders. He laughed and approached the girl looking out of the window, smiling. He couldn't remember the last time she smiled like that while he was here.
"Got a little weight on your shoulders?" Latias looked left, at Cyphrus. She blushed, shyly nodding.
"Oh yeah, that's right. You can't-"
Before Cyphrus could finish, a voice interrupted.
"Sir," Cyphrus turned to a nurse.
"Please go back to your bed, you're in a very unstable condition." Cyphrus cracked his bandaged neck and rotated his arms. The nurse grimaced with a sickened expression.
"I'm stable," Cyphrus replied. "Besides, my bed's kinda occupied."
The nurse then put on a stern face.
"Sir, please go back to your bed." Cyphrus put his hands up in defense.
"Okay, okay! I'll go!" He backed into the room. The nurse then looked at Latias with a strange look.
"Do you know him?" Latias shook her head and pretended that she didn't know him. The nurse oddly looked at the awkward position she was in.
"Okay, this is a weird day..." The nurse turned around from where she came from. She then hears the doors open and Lily stumble out of the door. She fell at Latias's feet, softly snoring while she curled into a ball again. Latias sweat-dropped,
'This is so awkward,' Latias shook her head and silently laughed.
"Pika! Pika Pikachu!" Pikachu then waves his arms for attention, remembering a time himself. They all looked at him; sadly Lorenzo and Bianca couldn't understand his chattering. Ray raises his hand to quiet the mouse,
"I'll translate." He then closed his eyes briefly before reopening them. He started a telepathic communications line, and was translating every word that Pikachu was saying. Pikachu's poke-speak then turned human.
"Okay! So…"
(Excerpt from Trigger)
"Alright! I'm starving!" Ash yelled as he burst towards his long waited meal. He saw Latias and was too busy looking at her to notice a crack in the ground which made him trip. He stumbled and Latias turned to see him coming at her with great force. They both screeched as they made contact and rolled on the floor. Pikachu stood a distance away from them and just laughed. When they stopped rolling, Ash landed on top of her with his face inches away from hers and blushed like he never had before. He looked into her eyes and realized that it was Latias not Bianca, which made him turn more red. Latias, wide eyed, also blushed and couldn't move. Seeing Ash this close blurred her mind completely.
Ash tried to get up off of Latias, but his arm failed him and he fell on top of her again. Pikachu was now bawling at this time. He winced as his casted arm hit the floor. Latias broke from her little trance and gently pushed Ash up so that he could get himself up. When he was up, he reached towards Latias with his hand to help her up. Latias grasped his arm as he pulled her up... a bit too hard though.
This time, Latias stumbled and fell on Ash, who then tripped on his own shoes and fell. The two were in the same position again except Latias was on top of Ash. Pikachu rolled on the ground laughing his ass off. Now, no one could tell the difference between a strawberry and their faces. Latias got up and Ash used his arm this time to get up and they both stared at each other for a lifelong time before Pikachu shocked Ash awake. Pikachu held his paw (Or hand or... whatever) on his mouth trying his best not to laugh, but he failed miserably. He bolted to the garden before Ash or Latias could say a word.
"That was so funny, Ash was so quiet for a long time after that too!" Pikachu started to snicker, telling how he remembered the incident and how he was laughing at the two. Ray started to bawl, Josh was scoffing, Lucia was blushing and smiling, Bianca and Kara were both giggling while Lorenzo just guffawed.
"That's so cute though," Kara aww'd. Lucia just stayed quiet, dreaming about her boy.
"Ah, now hold on a second. You think that is awkward? Wait till you hear-" Ray started. Kara abruptly turns to Ray and covers his mouth with a paw; her eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"Ray! That's too embarrassing!" Kara started to blush furiously.
"No it's not, not for me!" Ray snickers, pulling her paw away to speak again.
"Ray!" Kara smacked Ray's shoulder with a paw.
"I'm going to tell them anyway, and you can't stop me," Ray teases in a playful tone.
"No! Ah!" Kara just buries her muzzle in her paws, hiding her now strawberry-red face from view.
"Okay, this was before we were going out so…"
A female Lucario and a Latios are in an office like area, filled with cubicles. Very small, tight cubicles.
"Oh! Hello Ray," The female Lucario bumped into the Latios, in one of the cubicles. The Latios was typing away with his three claws at an extraordinary speed; just finishing up a report from their last mission together.
"Hey Kara, what's up?" The Latios asks. He turned around and smiled.
"Want to go out for lunch with a couple of other people?" Kara sincerely asked, a bit shy.
"Alright, sure. Just need to finish this paragraph. I'll be done in a second."
"Hey, can I come? I need a break too," A human asked from the cell from the opposite side of the tight hallway, across from Ray's spot.
"Sure," Kara turned around to face the human man, who wore a suit.
"Alright, I'm done," Ray says while backing out of his cell, unaware of who was right behind him. Both of them turned around at the same time, but were a mere inch apart when they did so. Ray and Kara ended up accidentally kissing one another. Both of them had surprised looks on their faces, and they broke apart as quickly as they kissed.
"Oh! Sorry!" Both of them say simultaneously, red tints on both of their faces. Kara, having her strong legs and the room, quickly backs up. However, out of embarrassment she ends up going faster then she thought and hits the wall of the human's office, flipping herself over it before hitting her head on the desk, then landing in the trash can. Everyone in the office turns to see the large noise.
"Oh crap, are you okay?!?" Ray and the human both ask. Kara, still spooked, emerges from the bin and quickly walks away without a word; desperately avoiding eye contact with Ray while her face glows red.
"That was the day I was planning to ask her out too!" Ray laughs. Kara looks away; clearly embarrassed by the way she tried to hide her face in her paws. That didn't help much; her face is so red, it practically glows. Everybody was laughing, but it didn't last long because of Kara's clear embarrassment.
"Oh come on, it wasn't that bad," Ray said, placing a hand on her shoulder. She turns and gives Ray a devilish glare.
"You're getting punished tonight… I'll get you back," Kara growled. Ray sweat-dropped while gulping...she sounded mad and bad things...very, very bad things happen when she's mad.
"Okay..." Luckily for Ray, Kara's attention gets diverted when the food comes; her ruby eyes now train themselves on the steak instead of the disguised Latios. Every meal winds up being a lot larger than they expected; especially for Pikachu who gets stuck with a plate about twice his size.
"Oh man," Josh says, staring at the plate. Since he's never been to a restaurant in human form, he's surprised at the food and how neatly ordered it all was. Now he has to resist burying his face into the plate like a pokemon would, but the food looks so-o-o good.
"Haven't you been to a restaurant before?" Bianca asks, snapping Josh out of his trance.
"Once, and that was on accident. I was flying around while invisible and accidentally went in through the doors. I got stuck in some weird, sushi restaurant for about an hour!"
"I bet you smelled like fish once you got home!" Ray remarks, stabbing a fork into a large piece of ravioli before sticking it in his mouth.
"I did, man… now, how do you…?" Josh asks, holding his fork like a serial killer would hold a dagger; right above his head. He really looked ready to try and stab all the little noodles in the spaghetti.
"Josh, you're supposed to do it like this!" Lucy exclaims, bringing his arm down before he attracted attention or hurt himself. She quietly starts explaining how to eat spaghetti and how to eat with a fork.
"Oh boy, this is kind of awkward isn't it?" Lorenzo rhetorically asks, watching Josh try to pick up the noodles. Josh numerously tried to spin the fork to pick up the noodles, but they all fell before they got into his mouth.
"Stupid noodles!" Josh grunts, glaring at the food. After four more tries he finally succeeds, while everyone cheers.
"Yay! Josh can eat spaghetti!" Bianca laughs. Josh glares at his 'sis', but only causes Bianca to laugh harder. In defeat, Josh glances to his left over at Kara. Her paws are tightly grasping the knife and fork as she cut herself a piece of steak.
"Isn't that hard?" Lucy asks. Kara looks up and smiles,
"No, not after a while." She happily replies, as she brought the fork into her mouth and chews. The group kept making small talk, but most of the time they spent eating dinner. When they were all done, they resumed talking again.
"Wow, that was some steak," Kara grins, causing her canines to glisten in the light. Ray slumps back in his chair and contently pats his stomach.
"We've got to come back here sometime," Ray says, satisfied with his food. Josh, who finally experienced restaurant like food, seemed quite happy.
"So how was your first meal outside of the garden?" Lorenzo asks Josh. The younger Latios grins,
"It was so good!"
Lucy laughs when she sees her brother's expression. "I know right? That's what I thought when I had my first taste of human food outside of the garden."
Josh looks at Lucy, "You're lucky…"
As the plates get taken away, they started to talk some more. Most of them were stories...
"One time, I remember flying around the streets of Altomare, and I smacked right into a dead end," Josh started off.
Lucy gives him a strange look, "That was so random," She says, raising an eyebrow.
Josh looks back, "So? It hurt," he crossed his arms.
"You know what really hurts? Getting burning soup on your face!" Lucy said, laughing. Everybody else laughed along.
"I remember hitting my head under a bridge when I was riding a gondola in the waterways of Altomare," Lorenzo said. He also leaned back on his chair, looking out at the now darkening night. "I almost fell off!"
"But grandpa, you're not that tall," Bianca says, starting to giggle.
Lorenzo starts sulking, "Make fun of the short old man…"
Bianca was about to say something, but then something happened that derailed everything.
Someone burst through the doors, a man with a black trench coat. He has black hair with black eyes and seemed to be crazy. Why? He had a knife at a woman's throat.
"Nobody move! NOBODY MOVE GODDAMIT!" He screams. The knife rests at the blond woman's windpipe, who was crying and moving along with the man out of fear of being cut. The man starts glancing around while working his way through the restaurant, glancing back at the door occasionally.
"Show me the exit!" He yelled to a waiter, Jim.
He points a finger toward the bathrooms, "O-over there," He weakly answers. The man started to go with his hostage. Ray and Kara both stood up.
"Knife size?" Ray asks, starting a telepathic communication line.
"Six inch blade, switch," Kara replies, watching the criminal's every tiny movement. Ray carefully puts his hands on his waist, feeling the concealed golden daggers that he had in his case.
"Look at his aura, what can you see?" Ray asks, also eying the man as he starts making his way through the tables. Kara closes her eyes, tuning out the crowd of different colors to focus on his. Despite filtering out the mixture of colors resulting from thoughts, feelings, and personalities; this aura field just won't settle on a single color.
"He's… running from someone," Ray said, "That's all I can get out of his head."
"His aura's distorted; this human's not doing well. Maybe he's drunk, or on drugs," Kara growls. Her growl attracted the attention of the man. He then turned around his entire body with the woman blocking him.
"Sit down! Both of you! I swear, I'll kill her and grab someone else!" The two sit down, knowing that he probably could and would.
Right when he was about to reach the exit, another person comes in. A man with short blond hair calmly walks in through the front door; not even looking twice at the knife in the other man's hand.
"What the hell?!? Why the hell won't you stay away!?!" The man pressed harder on the woman's throat, drawing a little blood. The woman whimpers before screaming in distress.
The blond man didn't even do anything for a couple seconds; just stare at the other man and his hostage with a blank, bored look on his face. He then raises a hand and points at the criminal.
"Get him." he orders to the air.
A whole window explodes as a gigantic lightning-bolt comes flying into the restaurant, nailing the man dead in his side and hitting him with so much power that the knife goes flying out in front of him while he flies into a wall; freeing the hostage at last. She didn't get off scot-free though, for the brief second that she was in contact with her captor some of the bolt arced into her. She isn't hurt as much as he is, but it was still enough to cause her to fall unconsciously to the floor.
Kara and Ray, as well as everyone else, just stare at the blond man, when out of nowhere another figure appears, this one taller and hidden beneath a cloak, his face hidden by the hood that was up and over the top of his head.
While the sound of sirens starts to come from outside, both the blond and hooded men walk over to the bodies and pick them (with the blond grabbing the knife) up before walking back towards the door.
"Do not worry, we have taken care of it. Please, enjoy your evening." Both of them say without turning back to face the patrons. The blond stops for a second and turns to Jim, "I apologize for the window, we will get the money for a replacement to you as soon as possible," is all he says before hurrying up to catch his larger counterpart. As they walked out, the back of their clothes, the cloak for the hooded man and the black jacket the blond man wore, reveal a single word to the crowd.
"What does it say?" Kara asks Ray while she closes her eyes to inspect their aura signatures.
"…It says… FUZE." Ray frowns. He never heard of anything remotely close to FUZE before. "We'll look them up eventually. For now, let's try to forget the incident. The last thing we want is Josh and Lucy on another death adventure."
Kara nods as she and Ray look back at the group; their faces were stricken with confusion.
"When was the last time something happened like that?" Lorenzo asks while they walked out of the restaurant. The group watched the police shake hands with the two FUZE men while the criminal and his hostage are carried away in ambulances; the police and the FUZE men happily talking to one another and laughing at some joke.
"Not for a while," Bianca replied. They tried to forget the moment by walking down the moonlit streets.
"That was…" Lucy paused, a bit frightened. "Scary."
"Yeah, I can imagine being held at knife-point," Josh says, putting an arm around his sister for an attempt at comfort.
"I already have," Kara states, rubbing her paw against her throat and shivering. Ray nods and draws her a little closer while the others stare at the two. They all turned around, however, when a police boat speeds down the waterways; the blond FUZE man sitting in the back but the hooded one nowhere to be seen.
Pikachu was fully alert, until he sees another Pikachu with a red flower tucked behind her ear. Ash's Pikachu blushed while she and her trainer walked by, which only becomes more pronounced when she smiled at him. He smiles back and waves a little while they went around a corner; then remembered something back in the garden, Lucy mentioned a certain Pikachu named Amy…
"Pikachu!" Lucy chirps, snapping Pikachu out of his thoughts. "Hurry up or you'll get left behind!"
Pikachu squeaks something back before hurrying after the crowd, quickly hopping onto Lucy's shoulders and snuggling up to the side of her head.
"Alright, we have to split here," Ray states.
"Oh… Okay then," Lucy says, looking down at her feet.
Ray quickly walks up to her and tightly hugs his niece. "Stay safe," Ray says while looking over her shoulder at Josh, who nods. The two separate to let Ray hug his nephew.
"Take care." Josh says.
"We'll see you tomorrow," Kara managed to smile. All of them smiled also.
"Yeah, goodnight!" Bianca said. All of them said their good-nights and goodbyes. Then Ray and Kara turn left while the rest of the group walked on straight.
Ray sighs. "We shouldn't worry about it too much. We're here to relax for now," he says.
Kara sighs too. "You're right." She admits, slipping her paw into his hand. The two look at each other, gazing into the other's eyes to see their love looking back. After a second, they walk into the shadows of the buildings getting cast by the moon.
"Now about that bed..." Ray chuckles.
"You'll be my bed." Kara replies, leaning towards Ray so their shoulders touch.
"You'll be my blanket." Ray counters, kissing Kara on the cheek. She blushes while starting to giggle.
The two come across a stairway that leads down to a canal-level sidewalk that stretches onward alongside one of the waterways. They descend and follow that route when Ray suddenly pulls Kara into an embrace from the back. They laugh a little before leaning up against the wall to their left, part of the street-level sidewalk; Kara's back against the wall and Ray's hands on her sides.
Kara rests her paws on the sides of his head, gently stroking his face. She shuts her eyes to view her love in his golden brilliance before pulling his lips to hers, beginning a long kiss. While returning her kiss, Ray's hands slide down to her waist; gently stroking Kara's fur in the process and getting her to shiver a little.
Once they separate, both of them smile and walk onward.
"You want to fly back home?" Ray asks while putting an arm around Kara's waist. Kara then placed her head on top of Ray's shoulder.
"Fly me back home." Kara replies, yawning a little. Ray's body glows with a bright light before dimming, leaving Kara standing with her head in the crook of a Latios' wing. She looks up at the Latios' face, staring into the depths of Ray's golden eyes.
"Let's fly," Ray smiles. Kara returns it before climbing onto Ray's back. Once she's steady, he lowers himself closer to the ground, sweeping his wings back to get ready for takeoff.
"Now, let's just be care-FUL!" Kara yelled while they turned invisible and speed away on top of the water.
A wake follows them on the canal until Ray lifts up and flies into the sky, soaring up above the clouds. He becomes visible again at this height, grinning as he and Kara look up at the spectacular sky above them; countless stars and a giant full moon.
As the wind of Ray's flight washes over them, Kara's aura-receptors sweep out behind her like a beautiful, rippling sheet. Ray gently slows down before idly floating in place, allowing Kara to lie down on his back and wrap her arms around his neck.
'It's so beautiful,' Kara thought, making sure Ray picks it up. He turns his neck around to look at her.
"Not as beautiful as you," Ray smiles.
Kara giggles. "You're so sweet," Kara manages to give Ray a peck on the nose before he turns around.
He inwardly sighs...he felt so high up that nobody could touch them. No one would care about the two of them up here. He felt so...so...alive.
Then his adrenaline starts pumping and Ray takes off again, blurring the stars into bright lines.
"Ray!" Kara exclaims, laughing at his recklessness.
"Get ready…" Ray thinks, smirking. Suddenly he stops. After a few seconds of his momentum propelling him, he let gravity take hold and pull them back down head first. As the clouds rushed by again, Ray resumed his invisibility, grinning as Kara held onto his neck tightly, more than hard enough to choke him, but he didn't care for now.
Almost as quickly as he started falling, Ray stops over the roof of their apartment building right side up. Kara gets off him, but topples over from the shock of their free-fall, staring up at Ray. She materialized from falling off of Ray, and her large red eyes were reflecting the slight haze that was distorting a small portion of the large moon.
"That was so scary," She said, looking at him for a long time with a frightened expression. Ray only laughed while turning back into a human.
"Catch you at the bottom!" Ray yells before running then jumping off the building.
Kara screams upon seeing him leap off a building, but after rushing over to look down, she quiets down. He hit the ground, but did it in such a way as to roll and disperse the energy instead of just going splat... just like a professional free-runner. She shakes her head before leaping off as well, performing the same maneuver and landing alongside Ray.
Kara smiles, "This place is perfect for free-running," She says, getting Ray to laugh. They both walk through the front door, holding hands.
"Maybe we can teach the kids how to do it while we're here." Ray suggests, "If we have time to."
A key slides into a lock, before turning with the human hand that was holding it. The door swings aside to let Ray and Kara into their apartment.
Ray takes both of his knives out and sets them beside the gold case, which is leaning up against the wall. They didn't need to turn on the lights to see; the full moon is framed by the balcony doorway and is flooding the room with its pale glow.
Ray changes back into a Latios and stretches his neck out, yawning in the process. Yet another benefit of the apartment's large size; plenty of room for a large pokemon like him to stretch out in.
"Ahhh, that feels good," He says, listening to the gentle clicks of the door as Kara shuts and locks it.
Kara sits down on the carpet, her tail gently swishing back and forth. "I'm pretty tired." she half-says, half-mumbles.
Ray settles down about a foot from her and looks out at the moon, which is starting to hide behind a couple clouds; like it was embarrassed for looking in at this couple. The balcony door is still open from when they left, which lets a gentle night-breeze flutter in and rustle through the occupants' fur.
Resisting a sigh from the soft breeze, Ray lays down on the floor; spreading his wings out on the soft carpet and yawning. He closes his eyes and lets the sigh out, "Come on Kara, its going to get cold soon!" he jokes, getting Kara to move next to him.
She glances out at the moon before lying down on her stomach and crawling up next to Ray. He shivers a little at the feeling of her fur tickling his body as hers came closer. One of his eyes opens to see her looking back with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.
"Too bad you told that story, we can't have fun tonight for punishment."
Ray pouts. "Aw come on. I was looking forward to it..." he groans.
Kara closes her eyes and slides herself further up until she's face to face with Ray. "That is too bad..." she replies before kissing him, playfully sticking her tongue into his mouth. After a moment of surprise, Ray lets his tongue play around with hers; all the while watching those soft red eyes that could always cloud his thoughts.
She slides her arms under Ray's neck, taking care not to stab or scratch him with one of her spikes, as Ray strokes her back with his; letting his claws gently rake through Kara's fur, which he knew she loved. He knew because he felt her legs tighten up a little, and from past experiences she only did that when she felt pleasure.
"Ah well," Ray sadly says. He closes his eyes while their stroking and kiss end, but then feels something very strange. Once they separated, Kara started nibbling at the end of his ear. It wasn't creepy or strange or painful...it was actually kind of nice.
Or it would be if he wasn't ticklish there...
Ray's warbles of laughter echo in the empty room for a second as he twitches around in a futile attempt of escape, with Kara's arms around his neck he wasn't going anywhere.
"Ah! Aha! Kara!" He wheezes through the laughs, which continue until she stops.
Kara gazes into Ray's teary, golden eyes; her face inches from his. "I've always wanted to try that." she winks before sliding down a little and tucking her head under Ray's chin.
To try and exact revenge, Ray tries to nibble her ear, but the only response he gets is a slight moan. What Ray failed to pick up was the clenching of her teeth and the high resistance from laughing even harder than Ray. Thinking quickly, she tried to find a way to stop him nibbling his ear.
"That feels good... we'll try that next time." she says, her voice muffled by his down. Ray, frustrated, stopped nibbling. But before he could find out how Kara was resisting the urge to giggle, he heard her, "Good-night Ray." she softly whispers, holding him a little closer and using his neck as a pillow.
Ray chuckles, without a clue, before kissing the top of her head.
"Good-night Kara. Love you." He replies, closing his eyes again and sweeping a wing over her as a blanket.
Kara smiles and licks his neck.
"Love you too."
"Phase one is already going underway. We've already taken out one of the major gang leaders. They'll disperse like Rattata later. The next gang is getting eradicated as we speak," A black hooded man said while he looked over the whole city of Altomare on a single building.
"Excellent. Do not call back until you get the other gangs eliminated. We cannot risk the compromise of our communication line any longer," The highly distorted voice spoke. The man nodded.
"Understood. Ephesus out."
'Hmph. Some street rats actually know what they're doing. Fighting back like that,' The man thinks to himself, pulling out a pair of brass knuckles he took from a dead gangster. Beneath the hood, he grins a wicked grin at his ill-gotten trophy.
'Such a shame.'
CJ: OooOOoo, so what or who is FUZE? Or those men?
DB: That along with many other questions will be answered in the chapters to come. See ya next time!
CJ: Later!