"Oh come on, again?" Rigel said as he stood on the stone. "Well, at least it's still looks nice up here." The large open meadow was still around the stone, but the scenery beyond had changed to fields full of tall crystal formations shining with a blue light, and the sky was now grey with clouds moving across it. "Well, I guess I'll go walking again." Rigel thought." Nothing else to do in this dream apparently." He then descended down the stone's steps and walked out into the meadow, where he saw an Eevee standing far away from him. "Who is that?" Rigel thought as he tried to go to the Eevee, but no matter how much he walked, he wasn't getting any closer. Suddenly his path was blocked by several dark figures as another one slowly moved towards the Eevee, causing a look of terror to appear on it's face. Rigel tried to get past the figures, but before he could, the figures and the Eevee disappeared as his mind began to fog again and he closed his eyes.

Opening them again, Rigel found himself in his burrow with the blurred memory of his strange dream fading from his mind. He was still tired from all that happened yesterday, and he had to use much of his willpower to get up instead of going back to sleep. He looked around his home , which was lit up by the morning sun, and saw that his family had already got up and gone out. After walking out of the burrow himself, he let out a loud yawn and was greeted by his parents, who were standing outside the entrance.

"Good morning Rigel." his mother said with a smile. "I assume you are going to see your friends."

"Good morning mom." Rigel said. "Yeah, I wanted to tell them about me leaving some time."

"Alright, see you later sweety." said his mother.

"Bye mom." Rigel then walked towards Tarazed's tree to tell him the news. "Tarazed!" he called up like he usually did. "Tarazed, have to tell you something!"

After a few seconds Tarazed came out onto a branch and looked down at his friend. "Hello Rigel, how did it go with your parents?"

"Pretty good I'd say." Rigel replied. "They seemed excited by the fact I evolved, and they said that it may be about time I left home."

"Really?" asked Tarazed. "Well, I guess you're lucky that they actually told you. My parents just up and left when they thought my brothers and I were ready."

"Yeah, maybe I am lucky." said Rigel. "How are Altair and Alshain doing anyway?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen them in a while." said Tarazed. "But if I remember right they still don't get along well."

"Sorry to hear that." said Rigel. "Anyway, I'm going to go find some breakfast and go see Aludra, do you want to come with me?"

"Alright, give me a second." said Tarazed as he began staring at another tree. Suddenly he flew from his branch and snatched a small insect off of a leaf. "Ok, that's some of my breakfast. Let's go."

Rigel and Tarazed walked through the forest until they found the grove of berries Rigel's father had brought him to the other day and ate their fill. They then continued on, and soon they arrived at the boulder-filled clearing, where they saw Aludra with her eyes closed in a meditative stance atop one of the large stones.

"Hey Aludra." Rigel called out. "What are you doing?"

As they approached her, she opened her eyes and jumped down from her perch. "Hey guys," she said. "What's going on?"

"Well," said Rigel. "I talked to my parents, and they told me that now that I've evolved, I need to be ready to go out on my own soon."

"What?" Aludra said in disbelief. "My dad says I'm not ready to leave yet, and I'm tougher and more ready than you or Tarazed."

"At least your dad will tell you when it's time." said Tarazed. "My parents waited until me and my-"

"Yeah, we know, they left without telling you. Apparently they left a bit too early." said Aludra. "Because I don't know how many times we've had to save you. Remember that Larvitar that almost ate you last week?"

"We agreed we would never speak of that." Tarazed said angrily. "Besides, if that didn't happen you wouldn't have met that other Riolu you like, would you?"

"L-like?" said Aludra as she began to blush. "I don't care about him! How do you expect me to like someone who passes out when just watching a fight?"

"I don't know." Rigel said. "I could have sworn I saw you sneaking glances at him whenever he looked away."

"I was not!" said Aludra, getting very irritated. "You guys don't know what you're talking about!"

"Alright Aludra, whatever you say." Rigel said with a grin. "Anyway, if I'm leaving soon, I'll need to practice with my new powers. Do you guys want to help me?"

"Fine." Aludra said. "But no more mentioning Chase, alright?"

"So you remember his name?" said Tarazed as he started to laugh. "Apparently you do care about him."

"Shut up Tarazed!" Aludra said angrily. "I am perfectly capable of doing the same thing I did to that Sceptile yesterday to you!"

"You mean when you jumped up and kicked it in the face?" said Rigel. "That was awesome, but can we go instead of arguing all day?"

"Why would we need to go anywhere?" Aludra said. "We've got plenty of rocks and things you could practice on here. I'll let you use them if Tarazed will be quiet.

"Alright, alright." said Tarazed. "No need to be so touchy."

After a bit of looking around, Rigel found a good sized rock and began to focus. Once again he pictured the rock rising and hitting it's target, causing it to slowly float up off the ground and then shoot back down with enough force to leave a small crater. "Freaking rocks!" Rigel yelled in frustration. His inability to throw the rocks where he wanted was really starting to get annoying.

"You should try something else." said Aludra. "Psychic doesn't seem to be working for you."

"But what else could I do?" Rigel said. "I don't know how to do other psychic moves."

"Maybe my dad could help you." said Aludra as she turned toward her home. "He's not psychic, but he knows a lot more than you and me. I'll get him. Hey, dad! Could you come here please?"

Soon Rigel saw Aludra's father jumping across boulders on his way to them. From what Aludra had told him about her father, Rigel knew that he was very experienced, and he probably knew of several techniques that a psychic could use, even if he couldn't.

"What is it Aludra?" he said before looking at Rigel. "Who's this?"

"Dad, you remember my friend Rigel right?" asked Aludra. "Well, he evolved and this is him."

"H-hello sir." Rigel said, somewhat intimidated by the Lucario. He had spoken with Aludra's father before, but still was not completely comfortable around him.

"Anyway," said Aludra. "He needs some help getting used to the new abilities he got from evolving. We know he's psychic, but he can't actually use Psychic, so we need to figure out what he can do."

"Hm, alright." said Aludra's father as he put his hand on his chin. "Have you tried Psybeam or Psyshock?"

"Um, no sir." Rigel said. "I don't know how."

"You don't need to call me sir." said Aludra's father. "Asterion will do. Anyway, for Psybeam you just focus your energy and will it to strike something."

"Um, ok Asterion." said Rigel as he closed his eyes and focused his psychic energy. He then envisioned a beam of that energy going forward into a nearby boulder. He couldn't see it, but he could feel it as the energy released itself, hitting the boulder without really doing any damage.

"That didn't seem to work." said Aludra's father. "Let's try something different, like Psycho Cut. You just do the same thing as Psybeam, but you focus your energy in front of you in a wave."

Rigel focused again, determined not to fail this time. He did as Aludra's father instructed, forming a crescent shaped wave before sending it flying toward one of the nearby boulders. The wave tore through the rock with little effort, and left it lying in two halves on the ground.

"Looks like you can actually use that one." said Aludra's father. "Good job."

"Oh shoot." Rigel said. "I'm lucky it didn't just fly randomly and hit someone. Why didn't I think about what could happen?"

"Because you are a bit clueless sometimes." said Tarazed.

"Thank you, Tarazed." said Rigel in a sarcastic tone. "That was very helpful."

"Sorry, I just call them like I see them." Tarazed said.

"You shouldn't think about what could happen." said Aludra's father. "It will just mess up your concentration. Now, while you are practicing this, I'm going to go continue my aura training. Aludra, you should come with me. You'll never make a good Lucario if you can't use aura well."