Him forget and ease his loneliness. He went to the kitchen to grab a soda, thinking of the words his long haired, almost as skinny as him, younger brother said. He thought "Man, I cannot do that, I won't, simple as that." Tomorrow after school was over he was heading to the usual spot, looking at the pidoves and a few staravia loitering the streets.
The sky was cloudy again, his bro ran up to him yelling "Dude! Dude!" He looked back to see that he already caught up to him. He uneagerly said "hey" Also seeing Joe's Mightyena following behind. Joe said "going to the usual spot?" He kept walking, answering "Yep"
They arrived at the usual spot , Joe went to talk to some of his friends ignoring Mightyena, as it sat down waiting for attention. He thought "he's like me" but paid no attention, still thinking if the Zoroark was real or just his imagination. He continued pondering that until Mightyena came up to him, rubbing its head against his stomach, He looked down on Mightyena and in a surprised voice he said "Whoa there Mightyena" Putting his hand on its forehead, a bit confused since Mightyena never went to him before. He smiled softly, petting its head, then he sat down, Mightyena doing the same beside him. He said "Heh, I am surprised, but at least you know how I feel, kind of." He pet its back softly, as its tail swished sideways. He felt a warm feeling inside of his chest as he pet Mightyena. Mightyena looked at him as he was being pet. Joe then called out for him, Mightyena quickly ran to Joe, leaving him. Joe then yelled "We better get home, it's gonna rain hard again!" Joe ran off with his Pokémon as dark clouds gathered.
He easily gets sick so he walked back home fast and just as he entered his room the sound of the rain was heard. He looked at his brother who was sleeping, Mightyena was asleep on the floor near the bed. He thought of how Mightyena dashed off to Joe in a moments notice, and thought about all the others that forgotten him. He put his pack on his bed, bored and with no inspiration to do anything, he looked out the window again and started daydreaming on how he would befriend a wild Pokémon until he saw a blackish figure sprint by the neighborhood, and instantly thought and said "Zoroark". When he went outside, he saw through the hard falling rain a Zoroark run towards the south of the town. Running through the cold rain chasing after the Pokémon he eventually noticed that he was on the town's outskirts, but did not stop, his hands were cold, and he was freezing from the cold October rain, but none of that mattered to him, what mattered was to keep running. Eventually the Zoroark stopped and turned to look at him, holding its arm from the cold. He stopped as well, taking a good look at the Zoroark. He then said "Hey, are you ok?!" Nothing happened, he slowly walked closer, feeling tense, and once he was just about eight feet away from it, he said in a calm voice "Hey, are you.. Cold?" He stretched his hand out to it as he took one more step, alarming the zoroark to the point it moved back slightly, noticing that he quickly said "N-no, I'm not going to hurt you" He hesitated, but moved closer to it, hoping with all his heart that it didn't escape, when the zoroark pounced on him, pinning him down to the ground. He was shocked that he couldn't react and thought of struggling but his body was cold to the point that he was not able to muster enough strength, so he just looked at the Zoroark's serious expressioned face. He said in a almost calm voice "I-I'm not g-gonna hurt you, I promise." He hoped that would work as the Zoroark let go of his arms letting him sit up slowly, He then said "My name is Luxis by the way" Again he forgot about the cold rain, excited that he met a Zoroark, but then he noticed something on the Zoroark's face, saying softly "hm? Is that..?" Some weird tattoos were right under the Zoroark's eyes as it looked at him seriously, narrowing it's eyes as Luxis tried to touch it, but right before he could, the Zoroark pinned him to the ground again, roaring right on his face angrily, as Luxis closed his eyes for that moment he then looked straight into the Zoroark's eyes, the Zoroark looked like if it was going to kill him, but it just let him go, and ran off. Luxis stood up, wanting to follow it but he was shivering from the cold, and when he looked around to where he was, he was at the old gate that was used by researchers who tried to study the twilight world. And through the pitch black clouds he could see the twilit skies. He muttered to himself "The forbidden grounds.. So that Zoroark." He did not dare to go through the gate being blocked by a old fence, so he returned home, where he got in trouble with his parents, in which got him in a fouler mood since he scared the Zoroark away. Afterwards he changed his clothes and laid on his bed as it was already night, his bro asleep on his own bed. Luxis couldn't get the image of that Zoroark's face which was burned into his mind, he hoped he would dream of it so that way he'd know it was not a dream what happened. The next day, right after he got out of school he visited the same spot where the gate was, he waited for a while but nothing happened, and if he did not arrived home soon he would be in trouble again, so just as he was about to leave, he saw a hooded person, wearing a black cloak go inside the gate, but he thought it was just his imagination since nobody would enter the forbidden grounds. Luxis left a bit disappointed, and kept an eye out for the pokenews. The next day he did the same, he arrived at the gate to the forbidden grounds, waiting for Zoroark even though he enjoyed looking at the clouds passing by and the gentle breeze, he felt disappointed, Zoroark never showed up, but strangely one day, he saw the hooded man walk into the forbidden grounds again. thinking "How did he come back from that place? He couldn't know a way in and out could he? But too late now, he already went inside.." While walking back to the last place he wanted to go, to his house, he was angered by the fact that he lost his only chance to change his life.