Aludra began backing away as Meissa took a step forward, her eyes still glowing brightly under her hood. The laughter of Meissa's shadow grew louder as it slowly rose from the ground behind her like a humanoid black sheet and opened what looked like eyes and a mouth, allowing Aludra to see things behind it as if the eyes and mouth were spots where pieces had been cut out. The shadow then began reaching towards Aludra with it's arms appearing to branch out and grow to impossible lengths. Aludra felt like running, but she seemed to be mesmerized by the shadow, and could only look on in terror as it's arms got closer. Suddenly, just as the arms were about to reach her, the shadow disappeared as Meissa quietly started giggling. Aludra then felt a tap on her shoulder, and turned to see the shadow mere inches from her face, which gave out a shrill scream that made her feel light-headed as she fainted from shock.

"Asterion!" Rigel yelled as he ran up to Aludra's burrow. "We need your help, please get out here!"

Hearing this, Aludra's father walked out of the burrow, and he only had to look at Rigel's face to tell that something was seriously wrong. "Rigel, what is it? Did something happen to Aludra?"

"No, it's my sister." Rigel said. "We got attacked by Sableye, and she's hurt really badly. Aludra said you could heal her, so we need you to come with us, quickly."

"Alright, where is she?" Asterion asked while looking around. "Did you not bring her with you?"

"We had to leave her with Aludra." said Tarazed. "She's trying to heal her, or at least keep her alive long enough for you to do it."

"So Aludra found a stone?" Asterion said. "Never mind that, take me to your sister."

Rigel ran with Asterion, Gauss, and Tarazed close behind until he reached the spot where he had left Aludra and Meissa, only to see Aludra lying on the ground with a shadowy creature standing over her smiling, the young Eevee he knew nowhere to be seen. "Hey!" He yelled angrily. "Who are you, what are you doing, and where is my sister!"

Meissa turned and looked at Rigel as she heard his voice. "Hey there Rigel, I was just having a little fun with Aludra here."

"How do you know my name? Answer me before I really get angry! Gauss, warm up those combat systems of yours, we may have a fight coming."

"Processing request... denied. Combat inhibitors prevent this unit from engaging it's operator in combat."

"It's operator?" Rigel said in confusion. "You mean that's...?"

"Thanks Gauss." said Meissa. "I knew you would recognize your boss."

"Meissa? What happened?" Rigel said. "How did you evolve? And what did you do to Aludra?"

"I don't really know how I evolved, and I just scared her a bit. I didn't expect her to faint, I guess I overdid it."

As Rigel and Meissa were talking, Aludra's father walked over to her and put his hand on her head before releasing a wave of pink energy. Aludra's eyes slowly opened to see her father, and she quickly sat up and looked around to find Meissa. "Rigel, stay away!" she yelled, still shaken from what Meissa had done. "She's got some weird shadow that will attack you!"

"Oh, hi Aludra." Rigel said. "Don't worry, she's not attacking, she just felt like scaring you."

"Hello Aludra." Meissa said, still smiling. "Sorry about that, I just couldn't resist."

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" Aludra said angrily. "You don't just scare others just because you think it's fun! I should knock that stupid smile right off your face, or better yet, knock your stupid face right off of you!"

"Now Aludra," her father said calmly. "This is not something to get so worked up about. I see you've evolved."

"Hmph, fine." Aludra said, still glaring at Meissa. "But yeah, I evolved. I just had to beat up a cave full of Sableye to do it, and it wasn't eas-."

"Your statement is erroneous." Gauss interrupted. "You recieved assistance from this unit, operator Meissa, and Rigel. In fact, it is most likely that your life would have been terminated if you were alone."

"Ok, we beat up a cave full of Sableye." said Aludra. "Nothing gets by you, does it rustbucket?"

"Query, are you referring to this unit as rustbucket?"

"Yes I am, rustbucket. Anyway, I'm going home. Rigel, I suggest you take your spooky little sister and do the same."

"Yeah, I guess I should." Rigel said. "Hey Gauss, want to come with us?"

"Affirmative." said Gauss. "This unit will follow Rigel and operator Meissa to their place of residence."

"Ok." Meissa said as she walked toward home. "Now I've got two things to show mom and dad."