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Chapter 8

Sableye woke up in the middle of the night. It's been days since they arrived and still no sign of his friends. He missed Kit and especially Kooky. And Hiarashi too. He was even starting to have a feeling nobody was even trying to find them.

He sighed and stood up. He was trying to sneak out the hotel room they were staying in, but Todo woke up when he tried to reach for the door knob.

"What are you doing?" she asked silently with her usual perky smile. Sableye, startled, snapped around. His eyes was so glittery that Todo laughed.

"Shhhh." Sableye shushed her. She nodded and jumped off the bed, running towards the Dark/Ghost Pokemon.

"Can I come? Where you going? Is it going to be fun?" The questions were rather loud and unending. Sableye grabbed her muzzle to shut her up.

"I'm going out to try and find the others myself. You shouldn't come with me. It might be dangerous." With that Sableye let go of her muzzle and went out the door, closing it quietly behind him. He turned around and gasped in surprise.

"Hi." Todo said, smiling in front of him. Sableye looked back and forth between the door and Todo, a huge sweat drop on his head. How did she...? Oh forget it.

"Just follow me." They snuck out of the hotel and ran deep into the city.

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Kooky woke up in the middle of the night. He started waking the others.

"What?" Fang hissed, obviously not happy at the fact that he was woken up while it was still dark. Kooky didn't answer, he just went to wake the rest.

"What's going on?" Kit asked as Kooky nudged him to his feet.

"We're leaving right now." Kooky finally told them when they rubbed the sleep out of their eyes.

"What?" Zanny asked in disbelief.

"But we don't want to leave. You can't tell us what to do." Sandy said, crossing her arms. Kooky opened his glowing red eyes and paralyzed the Sandshrew. The others were shocked.

"I've been quiet up till now. Let all of you tell me what's what. I've even allowed some of you to act threatening to me." He turned his glance on Fang, but still kept Sandy under his control. "But enough of that. You will all do as I say. We're leaving. We don't belong here. We're going to stop wasting time and go and find Mahi!"

"Why now? It's still dark..." Kit asked quietly, scared Kooky might do something horrible if he spoke loud enough. The Abra looked at him, eyes still glowing the sinister red color. The Vulpix shivered.

"Yes, it is. Mahi and the others will be sleeping right now. That means they won't be wandering around and we'll be able to find them more easily." Kooky explained calmly. He released Sandy, who fainted. The other four Pokemon stared at her with big shocked eyes.

"I'm scared..." Hiarashi muttered as they set out, Zanny carrying her friend.

"Kooky is scaring everyone nowadays." Fang muttered back.

"What's gotten into him?" Kit asked quietly. Zanny shrugged.

"I don't know. But I don't like it."

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"What now, huh? What do we do now?" Todo asked happily. Sableye frowned, showing a mouth full of sharp teeth. Todo's really asking for it.

"We shut up. That's what we do." he said, finally losing his patience, which is a hard thing to do for Sableyes.

"I'm hungry. There's nothing to eat here." Todo complained, but still smiling nonetheless. Sableye looked around and walked to a gravel road. There he began to eat the rocks.

Todo was shocked. She never seen Sableye eat rocks before. Only string cheese. Getting over her shock quickly, she put her happy grin back on.

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"Where exactly are we going?" Zanny asked. Kooky was quiet. Fang hissed, pretty loudly and Kooky stopped.

The Abra looked at Fang and started having the blue aura back. It surrounded Fang as well and the Seviper was thrown into Zanny and Sandy.

"Don't hiss at me again." Kooky muttered, the blueness wearing off. He started walking again. Zanny shoved Fang off of her and the snake Pokemon glared at Kooky, but knew better than to mutter a hiss.

After a few hours of unsuccessful searching, Kooky suddenly sat down and fell asleep. The other stared at the Abra. They were starting to think he was bipolar or something.

"Now what?" Hiarashi asked.

"We sleep too." Zanny said, laying down and using Sandy as a pillow. Fang continued to glare at Kooky.

"I say we drown him." the Seviper growled, slithering towards the Psychic Pokemon with a crazed look. The others stopped him by dragging him away.

"We should sleep where nobody could find us." a familiar voice said.

"What the-?!?" everyone exclaimed.

"Hola." Sandy greeted.

"When did you...oh nevermind." Zanny mumbled. The Zangoose picked Kooky up and they went into a dark ally. She set the Abra down and gazed at him.

"He looks so cute and innocent when he's asleep." she said. The others looked at eachother then at Kooky. Zanny exchanged their glances.

"Yeah right!" they shouted simultaneously. After a few jokes and scary stories, they settled down to sleep.

"Will we ever get home?" Hiarashi asked Kit. The Vulpix smiled at the youngest Pokemon in the group.

"Of course we will. Everyone is trying their hardest to get home." he reassured. Hiarashi looked at Kooky and shivered.

"I'm scared of Kooky now. He's so...mean." he muttered. Kit looked at Kooky and then back at the Cyndaquil.

"He's just trying to get us home. I bet he's scared too. He just don't want to show it. That's why he was being so...non-Kooky."

Hiarashi smiled and walked up to Kooky. He cuddled on the Abra's lap. Kooky just snored.

"I'm scared too Kooky. We all are. You don't have to be mean..." Hiarashi trailed off as he looked deeper into the ally. Red glowing eyes, much like Kooky's, peered at them. Hiarashi could tell the owner was bigger than Kooky though.

He screamed, waking the others, except Kooky, who slept on. They looked and screamed too.

I tried the Pokemon league...I lost on the champion. So I did more training. Here's my current party:
Seviper- Lvl.47
Zangoose- Lvl.63
Abra- Lvl.64
Swampert- Lvl.60
Sneasel- Lvl. 45 (Quick Attack, Icy Wind, Faint Attack, Fury Swipes)
Sableye- Lvl.50 (Shadow Ball, Night Shade, Psychic, Faint Attack)

I'm still working on em. Anywho, please review! what do you think is in the shadows? Are it a friend or foe?