This is a legitament sorry coming from me. I have been busy with so many things that I couldn't get this finished sooner. Please enjoy this chapter and hope you will continue following me.

"Hey, Aqune," Cecil said as he ran, "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah," Aqune responded as she tried not to look directly at him.

"Don't mind me asking, but I think the color on your face is a little off," Cecil remarked.

Aqune flinched when she heard that, as she felt that the raincoat may not have covered her completely.

"It's nothing," she could only say back to him.

"Hold on, she's still hurt," Yasuka snapped at him, "We need to get her to her parents quick."

Cecil immediately became silent, knowing Aqune's current condition.

"Guys," Aqune said, "I think we're almost there."

"Great, now we can just take a rest from all this… what the!" Cecil said before Viktor pushed his head down, the former doing the same to Yasuka.

"Down," he only said before crouching behind the bushes.

When they peaked over the bush to see what was may be happening, they didn't believe their eyes. From what they were seeing, it was in some way a battle that was not common to their minds. They saw as a woman in black clothing and a Pokemorph in the form of a Pidgeotto thoroughly gave the final blow to their opponents' Pokemon, who happened to be rocket members.

"Ugh, dammit all," one of them said, "these two are strong."

"Guess it's your own bad luck that made you run into us," the woman said with a wink.

"Ugh, just you wait," the other grunt said while taking back his Pokemon, "we'll get you for this one of these days."

As they turned around to run, they four noticed that Aqune's father started stepping forward.

"Shall I?" he said as he took something out of the bag on his back.

"But of course," Kama merely replied as she took a few steps back.

When Reluno took out the thing he got from his bag, it looked like a somewhat large boomerang with a thunder symbol on it. It began emitting some kind of electric energy, which danced wildly around the weapon. As Reluno took a breath, he raised the still glowing weapon above his head in a throwing stance. When let out his breath, he threw it, which spun in a circular fashion. When it went out of view for the group to see behind the bushes, the sound of an explosion was heard, along with the screams of the two grunts. They looked up to see two people flying off, which they quickly came out of view for anyone two see. After that, the boomerang came back, which Reluno caught with ease.

"HOME RUN!" he yelled with triumph as he held the boomerang over his head.

"HOME RUN!"

The second one immediately confused the adults and made them turn around in the direction of where Aqune and the others were hiding.

"Dummy! Why did you yell like that?" Viktor whispered to Cecil.

"Sorry, I was in the moment, ya know?" he responded with embarrassment.

"Shh, kill the sound you two," Aqune said as they became silent.

They held their breath as the woman with the scythe approached to where they were hiding. Then Reluno stopped her, and did the approaching for her.

"Alright, you four, we know behind there," he yelled, "you can come out now, you know."

"Guess we were found out," Yasuka said with glum as she and the others got up.

"Actually, we already knew you were there," the Pideotto morph said.

"Wha…," Aqune said dumbfounded, "how could you possibly… ssss. Ow owow."

She cringed before she could finish her sentence, still suffering from the burn on her back.

"Oh! Are you alright?" the woman in black asked with concern.

"Well, she suffered burn back at the school from an explosion," Viktor responded, "so no, she isn't alright."

"Oh my!" another voice exclaimed, "Is that true?"

When turned around, they saw Aqune's mother, Rita Fanar. She had green hair and orange eyes, and a kind attitude to match. She was nice to almost anyone she knew that was well associated, as well as willing to support her daughter when the time came for it.

"Here, Yasuka, put her down," she said, "I'll take her inside take of it."

"Okay, Ms. Rita," Yasuka said as she let Aqune down.

As Aqune approached her, she tried to keep the raincoat on her tightly. When she tried to keep it on with her right hand, it showed slightly outside of the coat. Cecil immediately caught sight of it. When he was about to say something, Yasuka immediately stopped him. She shook her head, which immediately made Cecil drop his question.

"Alighty, you three," a familiar voice asked, "Mind telling me why you three are out of school so early?"

When the kids turned around, they saw a man with the exact same clothes as the morph that they recently saw. Cecil was the first to realize who this man was.

"Mr. Soren," Cecil asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Don't tell me…" Cecil said in realization, "Were you that Pokemorph we saw earlier."

"What?" Yasuka said, "That's impossible, there is no way he could have been that same person. He would have to have…"

"Special powers," Soren interrupted, "That's what you were going to say. Although, our powers are a little …different"

"Are you okay?" Aqune's mother asked as she helped her daughter sit on her bed.

"I'm fine," she answered as she watched her mother get a first aid kit.

"Here, take off the raincoat," her mother said, "That way I can see how bad the burns were."

Aqune gripped the coat tightly when she heard this. She didn't want her mother to see what has happened to her, as she knew it would put her in great shock. When she raised her head, she immediately saw her mother taking off her hood. She closed her eyes, bracing for any kind of shock that has yet to come.

"Don't be afraid," she heard her mother say. Aqune looked up in slight confusion.

"If you don't accept yourself," she said while patting Aqune's head, "how can you hope to have others accept you as well?"

When she heard this, she thought on some things she might have heard before.

What matters most is not on the outside, she thought as she was remembering, but what lies beneath exterior of the mask.

With that thought, she took off the raincoat and let her mother see what she had become.

"That's my girl," her mother remarked with a smile, "now then, lay on your stomach so I can see how you back is."

As she lay on her stomach, a few thoughts came to her mind. She couldn't help but notice that her mother was taking this rather calmly, not making a negative reaction at all. She flinched a bit as her mother applied medicine to her burns.

"It stings a bit at first," she said to comfort Aqune, "but it goes away eventually."

Aqune thought for a moment as she felt the pain of the wounds slowly go away.

"Mother," she asked, "this…form. I don't know why, but it feels so…natural. It's almost as if it was just putting back on an old set of clothes."

"Really?" her mother responded, "that's good. It means you are getting used to your new form."

"Mother, what exactly are we?"

"My daughter, we are Pokeshifters. We are beings who are part human, part Pokeshifter."

So, like I said I'm sorry. I tend to have times where I completely forget to get back to something. I will try to divide my attention and get well with the chapters. Until then see ya.