Chapter the Third;
Contents of the Relic Vase
Moon headed down the steep path that she had taken on her journey to Hypno's den. All along her way she would have never dreamed that she would be leaving there with all of her memories intact. She sighed and put the vase down upon the path after a while. It made her jaw ache, the way she had to hold it.
She lied down to rest her muscles but not long after a drop of water on her nose awoke her. Moon looked up to see dark clouds covering the normally blue sky.
"That's just great," Moon grumbled as she stood and stretched. The rain came down harder as she padded forward to pick up the vase and save the powder held within. Just as Moon bent down, the vase centimeters away from her mouth, out of the clouds above a ball of ice fell. It knocked the vase over and spilt the powder down the rocky surface of the mountain. To Moon's surprise more than just the powder came out of the vase.
Moon quickly retrieved the items and saved as much of the powder she could before hurrying down the path until in the drenching rain she found a small cavern in the rock like the one she had on the way to Hypno's, except smaller. She shook herself dry before emptying the vase onto the dry floor of the cave. She knew it was wrong to look through other's stuff but if there was something in there that would confirm her distrust in the Drowzee; she wasn't going to let her manners get in the way.
She nosed each of the items in turn and even examined the powder. None of the items were especially suspicious but the one that caught Moon's attention the most was a Twisted Spoon. For what reason would a psychic type Pokémon send an item away that could help them? Would Hypno even allow that type of behavior? Moon didn't know. She carefully placed the items back into the Relic Vase before drifting back into a dreamless sleep.
When she awoke it was still raining, so she decided to examine the items in the vase and think for what reason they were to be given away. The Muscle Band was an item that helped Pokémon train and become stronger, but why would Ster give it to a healer friend? Was it so that the Pokémon that needed helping could become stronger after they had been healed? Moon wasn't so sure, but she couldn't let the possibility be forgotten.
Then there was the Silver Powder. What could that do other than help bug-type Pokémon grow stronger? Oh, it helped bug-type Pokémon grow stronger; Ster did say that his friend was a healer of sorts so it did sort of make sense. But what made the bitter odor if it wasn't the powder?
Moon sniffed everything once again to find that the Silver Powder had been mixed with Energy Powder. This confused Moon. Why would someone mix two kinds of powder together unless they wanted to hide something through the distraction of the powder's awful scent? Moon took a mental note of this and continued of her search of the items.
The last item there was a Quick Claw. This item confused Moon the most. A healer was to heal Pokémon, not help them hurt other Pokémon as the Quick Claw would do.
She carefully replaced the items back into the Relic Vase and covered them as much as she could with what was left of the powder. Moon watched the rain fall from inside her cave. She waited. She wished for the time when she could be free of her past.