On their way to Cerulean City, Tony and Delia happened to meet up with a hiker at the base of Mount Moon. That unto itself wasn't a surprising thing, as the mountain was a well known landmark. The fact that the hiker was fretting over something just outside of the cavernous opening into the mountainside caught their attention.
"Is something the matter?" Delia asked once they were close enough to hold a normal conversation.
"I found out that in order to get my Pokemon to evolve, I would need to get a hold of some Moon Stone." The hiker, a girl name Kristy replied. "I wanted to get them from straight from the source, since buying Moon Stone at a store is so expensive. It turns out that I'm more than a bit freaked out by something in Mount Moon. Not sure what it was, but..."
Kristy shivered at the thought.
"That's a bummer." Tony sympathized with her, before attempting to change the subject. "Which Pokemon are you planning to evolve?"
"Here, I'll show you. J.P., Clif, c'mon out!" Kristy exclaimed as she tossed up two pokeballs. Upon release, a Jigglypuff and Clefairy preformed several flips in sync with the other before landing and posing cutely.
"How darling!" Delia commented with a smile.
"How long did it take you to get them to be so synchronized?" Tony asked, clearly impressed at the opening act.
"Quite some time, actually. You see, we're part-time performers when we're not entered in Pokemon Contests. We always practice when we can. J.P. and Clif seem intent in evolving and I promised them that as soon as we gave our previous performance, that I'd get them the Moon Stones they'd need."
"Maybe we can help your search for Moon Stone." Delia suggested.
"Really? That'd be great!" Kristy replied as she recalled her pokemon into their pokeballs and withdrew her flashlight. "Shall we go?"
Not long after going into the cavernous opening, the small group began to feel like they were being watched.
"It's starting to get freaky again..." Kristy said with a shudder.
"We should have run into some wild pokemon by now. I know that some can get very territorial." Tony replied as they continued walking through the winding tunnel.
Unable to shake the feeling of being watched, Tony released Charizard and Chikorita as Kristy released J.P. and Clif.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are..." Tony challenged under his breath.
"Cle - Clefairy!" Clif called out as it pointed at something floating in the shadows.
Whatever it was, Kristy's flashlight couldn't reach it.
"Charizard, help us out to see what it is!" Tony commanded of his fire-flying type pokemon.
Roaring once, Charizard let out a jet of fire, briefly revealing a crescent-moon shaped pokemon.
"What the..." Tony blinked. "A pokemon?"
At the sudden outburst, the unidentified pokemon rushed past the group with a few Moon Stones in its psychic tow. Roaring once more, Charizard launched itself after the pokemon, in hopes to challenge it.
"Charizard, no!" Tony yelled, just as it reached the other pokemon.
The crescent-moon shaped pokemon turned just in time to see Charizard breathing hot air onto it as Charizard attempted to restrain itself.
"Lu-tone. Luna, Lunatone, Lu." the pokemon said after looking around and spying J.P. and Clif. "Tone, Lunatone."
Just before the Lunatone took off, it released two of its collected Moon Stones into Charizard's clutches. Charizard landed near Kristy and gave her the evolutionary stones.
"These are for me?" Kristy asked.
With a growl, Charizard nodded and pointed in the direction in which the Lunatone took off, in attempt to indicate the Lunatone's apology for having scared her earlier and to give the Moon Stones as a peace offering.
"Awesome!" Kristy exclaimed. "Let's get outta hear first and foremost. Lunatone may be gone, but this place still gives me the creeps!"
After having witnessed a synchronized performance by J.P. and Clif, the newly evolved Wigglytuff & Clefable, Tony and Delia said their goodbyes to Kristy as they parted ways.
"Y'know what's weird? We never did see any of the wild pokemon inside Mount Moon..." Tony mused.
"Or find out who or what was watching us." Delia added.
"How odd." Tony shook his head. "Oh well. Last one to Cerulean City's a rotten Exeggcute!"
"Wait, what?" Delia exclaimed with surprise before racing after Tony.