"Melody?" Shine asked as Melody entered her room.

Melody brightened the lights and she could be seen smirking.

"You can do it." Melody said walking closer to Shine.

"That's where!" Shine said realising that Melody was the one in her dreams.

"Follow me." Melody said and left the room.

Shine got out of the bed and followed Melody.

Melody the went into Ginger's room and said the same thing. Then with Ginger and Shine following, Melody left the base.

"Where are we going?" Ginger asked.

Melody didn't respond but instead walked faster.

After a bit Melody broke out into a sprint.

Shine and Ginger ran after her until they reached a cliff and then Melody stopped by the edge. Shine and Ginger just stood a bit behind her.

There was a full moon out.

"They are coming." Melody said.

"Who's coming?" Shine asked.

"The 'Dark Nights' are coming and they want to take over." Melody said slowly.

"There coming? Well, we better get prepared." came Crystal's voice as she walked up to the three.

"How?" Shine asked as she, Ginger and Melody turned around to face Crystal.

"Magic." Crystal said simply.

"Magic?" Melody asked.

"Indeed. Shine is the only other pokémon I know who can use it." Crystal replied.

"How?" Shine asked.

"The first thing you need is a wand. For now you'll have to make a basic one until you do the research to be able to make better wands." Crystal explained.

"Cool. So, how do I make my first wand?" Shine said.

"You first need a stick and some iron to make iron caps." Crystal said.

"How are we going to get iron?" Ginger asked.

"I have a good friend who can get us anything we need." Crystal said and started walking away from the cliff.

Shine, Ginger and Melody followed.

"Who is it?" Melody asked.

"You remember Alex, right?" Crystal asked Melody.

"Yeah." Melody replied.

"It's him." Crystal said.

"Would he be up at this time of night?" Shine asked.

"More than likely." Crystal replied.

"Why?" Ginger asked.

"He… is an inventor and an everything else." Crystal said.

"An everything else?" Melody asked.

"There's too many to say." Crystal replied, "and one that I can't mention."

They group walked for a while until they got to a small iron building.

Crystal knocked on the door.

"Coming!" Alex's voice came.

Soon afterwards the door opened and Alex was seen standing there.

"Hey, Crystal. Nice to seen you again," Alex greeted, "and you too Melody and Shine."

"How do you know my name?" Shine asked.

"It's me. The Alex from before when that happened." Alex replied.

"Prove it. Answer these three questions. What was my name back then, what was Alex's first pokémon and name another on of his pokémon." Shine said.

"You didn't have a name, his first pokémon was Lightning and he had a fennekin." Alex replied.

"Long time, no see. How have you been?" Shine said.

"Fine, you?" Alex replied.

"Good."

"Alex, have you got some spear iron?" Crystal asked.

"Yeah, follow me." Alex said and climbed down the ladder behind him.

Crystal and Shine followed but Melody walked away.

"You really need to get out more, Alex." Crystal said as she saw everything Alex has done.

"What is all this stuff?" Shine asked.

"Too many to name." Alex replied.

In an unknown area (Melody's P.O.V)

I was walking slowly through a small forest. It was quiet. I was alone.

"Are you ok, Fennekin?" I heard a male voice ask.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I heard a female voice, which I assumed was Fennekin, reply sounding sad.

I walked towards where the voices came from and saw a fennekin and some other pokémon that looked like cloud sitting at the edge of a river. I just stood in the bushes watching them.

"Are you sure?" the cloud pokémon asked.

"I just miss my family is all." Fennekin replied.

"It had been a long time since I've seen my family too." the cloud pokémon replied.

"We've been stuck here. I wish Alex could figure out why and how to get us back." the Fennekin said sounding depressed.

I walked out of the bushes towards the two.

"H-hello." I said.

They both turned around to look at me.

"Hello." they both replied.

"I overheard you talking about being stuck here and not seeing your families for a while." I said.

"Yeah." the cloud pokémon said.

"You're lucky, really." I said.

"Why?" Fennekin asked.

"I shouldn't really be talking about my problems. I'm sorry I bothered you two." I said and started walking away.

"What's your problem?" Fennekin asked.

I stopped.

"I really need to stop reminding myself of it." I said.

"Of what?" the cloud pokémon asked.

"I… never had a family or anyone to take care of me when I was young." I said.

I turned around to face them. The cloud pokémon turned a flash light on and pointed it at me.

"I can't imagine what that would be like." Fennekin said..

"What's that around your neck, Fennekin?" I asked noticing that Fennekin had a necklace with a diamond shape on it that looked like it was make out of a rare crystal.

"My mom gave it to me." Fennekin replied.

"It's amazing." I said.

"Oh yeah, my name's Lightning." the cloud pokémon said.

"My name's Melody." I said.

"It's getting cold." Fennekin said.

"Let's set up a camp fire." Lightning suggested.

"I'll get the branches for you." I said and then used psychic to gather the nearby fallen branches and put the in a pile.

Fennekin then used a low powered flame thrower to set the branches on fire. We all sat near the fire.

"So, what's your name anyway?" Lightning asked me.

"My name's Melody" I replied.

"That's a beautiful name." Fennekin said.

I blushed a bit.

"Did you name yourself that?" Lightning asked.

"My first and best friend suggested it." I replied.

"What's their name?" Fennekin asked.

"Ryan, he was my only friend for a while since he found me and help me." I replied, slowly.

"Could you tell us the story?" Lightning asked.

"Sure." I replied smiling slightly.

Flashback…

It was a cold stormy night. I was hiding under a tree. I had been driven out of all the nearby towns.

I was just laying under the tree looking out towards the last town I visited and started crying.

"Hello there, lass." came a voice.

I ignored it thinking that he wasn't talking to me.

"Hello?" he said.

Then I felt someone poke me. I turned to look at who it was and saw an umbreon.

"It's not nice to ignore people." he said.

"I-I didn't t-think you were talking to m-me." I replied.

"Who else would I be talking to? There's no one else around here that would be up at this time of night."

"I guess."

"Why are you crying?"

"N-no reason."

"Want to come back to my house?"

"Are you s-sure?"

"Yeah, come on!" he said and ran off.

I wiped away my tears and ran after him.

I followed him to an opening in a forest and it was beautiful. There were tons of flowers and a single house.

"Wow, this place is beautiful." I said.

"I did all this all by myself. No one would help me because they think I 'work for the humans'." the umbreon said.

"That's what they think I do." I said.

"Well, do you want to live here with me?" he asked.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm as sure as I am not working for the humans."

"So, what's your name anyway?"

"My name's Ryan."

"My name's Melody and I'd love to live here with you."

"We could build a house for you and a clinic in between so help pokémon who need it."

End of flashback…

"So, we did just that." I said.

"Where is he now?" Fennekin asked.

"He's at…" I said.

"Crystal's secret base?" Lightning asked.

"You know about it?" I asked.

"We've helped save this world once before. So, we know Crystal and quite a few others and she recently showed us her base." Lightning said.

"But now… it seems that the Dark Nights want to take over." I said.

Some time later…

I headed back to the base and went to bed. I was tired.