Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, as well as its various number of creatures and characters. But I do own the characters Hatiro and Luna
A/N: Hope your enjoying this, please review, I'd like to know what you think.
Note: For you to understand and know the characters, you gotta have read at least Ch.2 in my, story, "Adventures of Umbreon and Espeon".
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As Luna walked over to Amber's room, where she was combing her hair, soon after Ted and Hatiro left the house. She jumped up and sat on Amber's bed as she calmly watched her.
"Hey there, Luna. Did you need anything?" Amber asked Luna, who just simply nodded 'no' and continued to watch her. "Just here to watch, huh?" Amber asked again, this time turning with Luna nodding 'yes'.
"Alright, but you should prepare to leave too." Amber said as she began messing with her hair
Luna just gave Amber a confused look
"Don't you remember, we forgot to go shopping for Christmas." Amber reminded her, as she noticed Luna's confused look
Luna just put on a surprised look as she realized that Amber was right, they had forgotten that they didn't shop for Christmas gifts. They had lost their track of time, and had forgotten, when they were off to go shopping, one of Amber's friends had insisted that they try and skate of the frozen water of the lake on the way to Solaceon town. They normally shopped for Christmas gifts for the family, earlier than the rest of the family, and Luna had gotten so use to that, that she forgot.
"I can't believe I forgot about that." Luna thought to herself privately, "Oh well, at least I'll be able to see Hatiro, on the way, maybe I can tell him we needed some more firewood." Luna said smiling and think of a way to tell Hatiro why they were passing by.
"Infernape, do you think you can get Luna's coat out of the wash and put it on her?" Luna heard Amber say as she snapped back into reality.
"Infernape" he said in reply
"Thank you" Amber said in her sweet voice. "Come on Luna, lets head down stairs, I need to go get my jacket and tell mom where we are going." Amber said as she left her room, followed by Luna who ran after her.
Downstairs, Amber explained to her mom why they would be gone. Her mom was quite surprised, for this would be the first time that Amber would forget to shop for gifts, since she was old enough to trust to go alone on her own. Infernape with the help of Pikachu, another wild pokemon who comes by once in a while to say 'hi' to Infernape and the other pokemon in the family. She was one of Infernape's most trusted friends in the wild, she was always helpful when it comes to getting at small places he otherwise couldn't into and for protection when he goes to the forest for his alone time and falls asleep. In return, Infernape, protects her from much larger pokemon and when she needed the protection from the weather, by letting her come in the house.
"There you go sweetie, that should make sure that you are very cozy out there." Pikachu said
"I can't thank you enough for helping me get Luna ready, Pikachu." Infernape told her
"Yes, thank you, Pikachu. Infernape always was never to good with buttons." Luna said, somewhat pissing Infernape a bit
"Oh, it was nothing you two. As for the buttons, well that makes sense your coat buttons are quite small." Pikachu said as she placed a scarf on Luna, "Its the least I could do, for opening up your doors to me during this rough weather."
"Ok, dear, try to come back by ten, there is snow storm headed this way." Amber's mom reminded her as she wished them good luck in the snow.
"Don't worry mom, we'll get back soon." Amber told her.
Soon Amber and Luna were off to the store as well, leaving Amber and Ted's parents to prepare for tomorrow.
Back with Ted and Hatiro, Starly had decided to help Hatiro this year, and stayed with them, they were already past Solaceon town, and would soon be at Veilstone City.
"Wow, it really is cold out here at nights." Ted said, as he tried to warm up his hands.
"Sure is, isn't it, Hatiro" Starly said to Hatiro.
"Definitely, I'm glad that Infernape had given this to me before I left." Hatiro said as he closely watched out for trouble, though doubted it.
"Keep a good eye out, Hatiro, we'll need if we encounter some trouble." Ted said, reminding Hatiro to be alert.
Just as they reached the building that is on the Veilstone City's outskirts, close by was a gang of four that wore some black snowsuits, one though was easy to remember was a tall man with a very wide and thick mustache.
"Hello there." Ted said to them, shocking them because they were paying no attention to them but the inside of the building.
"Whoa!... kid don't do that!" the mustached man said.
"Yeah! you asking for trouble?" a skinner member said.
"Whoa, calm down, I was just saying hello." Ted said, as Hatiro seemed to be growling at the skinner member
"We are sorry, you just surprised us." the mustached man said quite calmly
"Oh, I'm sorry. We were just passing by and saw you just standing out here." Ted said
"Its not a problem, kid. We are just... ah... standing here observing the wintry landscape." the taller female member said
"You four sure that you can't, just... you know, observe from the inside of the building." Ted asked.
"Yeah, were sure, it's the only way to...to... feel the landscape as you observe it." the skinner man said quite quickly
"Alright, if you say so. Um ...if you'll excuse us." Ted said
"Oh, right. we're sorry." the mustached man said
"...and teach that useless pokemon of yours, that its rude to growl at people." the skinner man said out loud as Ted, Hatiro, and Starly passed.
Hatiro just looked at the man and growled rather loudly and lightly tackled the man in the stomach, knocking him over
"You asked for that one!" the mustached man said to his comrade who was on the snow, after laughing very loudly
"You definitely asked for it, insulting an obviously well trained umbreon." the other girl said
"I'm so sorry about that." Ted said, holding Hatiro
"Don't worry about it, our friend here, insulted the poor thing, and well, got what was coming towards him." the girl member said
"Though he could use some anger management lessons." the taller female member said.
"I don't think so, I mean he doesn't seem to be snapping at the starly on his head." the mustached man said
"Well, sorry." Ted said again
"Don't worry about it, just run off, we'll be fine." the mustached man said, and with a nod, Ted and Hatiro were off again to Veilstone store.
"Next time I see that umbreon, I'm going to let my machamp do the talking." the skinner member said as he got up.
"Steady there, Lou, we didn't come here to pick a fight with a kid and his pokemon." the mustached man said
Ted and Hatiro were walking down the streets of Veilstone City, somewhat admiring the lights of the City in the snow and trying not to get hit by a car.
"Wow, there are sure a lot of last minute human shoppers here, huh?" Starly stated to Hatiro
"You kidding, what till later, that when things really get busy." Hatiro said
"Well, you two, here we are. Veilstone City Mart." Ted said as the three looked up at the tall building. "Alright, let head in." Ted said, and with a 'bark' from Hatiro he entered the store with Ted and Starly
A bit farther along, Amber and Luna, were walking in the snow, already past Slateport City. Luna kept a good eye out to find Hatiro and Ted, to see where they were training. Luna got even more curious as some pokemon that stayed stationary in their homes, told her that they had seen a boy and umbreon by that description, but saw them press on further.
"I'm getting worried, where is Ted and Hatiro? Surely we would've bumped into them by now." Luna thought as she kept looking around her.
"Luna? You ok? You look worried." Amber said as she looked behind her, Luna gave her a warm smile and 'bark'ed back to indicate she alright.
"It won't be long now, we should see the city in about ten more minutes." Amber told her, it somewhat made Luna somewhat worried.
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A/N: I'm sure that it's not that fast to get to Solaceon Town, or Veilstone City, but I do have to speed, and no time to write a 20 chap story on their trip there, and back. I hope you are enjoying this so far, I'll get into the groups names later in the story.