Leaf's story

"Spirit!" Marionette yelled. "We don't have time for that now!" Spirit, who had picked up a Nintendo 3DS, sighed and put it back on the shelf.

"Aww, come on!" he said. "I wanna buy it!" Marionette grabbed him and dragged him out of the store. Outside, Dusk and Blacktail were waiting. Dusk was studying a map, Blacktail was yawning.

"Finally!" he said when Marionette and Spirit approached him.

"Last time I take Spirit with me shopping!" the banette said with a sigh.

"We aren't far from EeveeClan now." the dusknoir said. "We just have to go through the forest."

"Victini!" Whitetail yelled. Then she sighed. "We fall asleep for a moment, and then she vanishes!"

"This is great!" Aura yelled angrily and kicked a rock lying on the ground. "Just great! She leaves us in times of need! Well, I guess we have to search for her! Whitetail, Mighty, you two go deeper into the forest. Shadow and I will search closer to the camp!"

"Why do I have to go with WHITETAIL?" Mighty yelled. "This is unfair!"

"Yay!" Whitetail yelled and gave Mighty a hug. "You and I are gonna have a GREAT time in the forest!"

"Don't be childish now, Mighty!" Shadow said calmly. "She's Giratina's daughter. Giratina is your former boss. Doesn't it feel nice spending time with her? Despites, she needs a strong pokémon to protect her. I bet she hasn't had a real battle since we faced off against Darkrai half a year ago!"

"That's right!" Whitetail said with a smile. "So, now, Mighty, let's go!" She ran away deeper into the forest. Mighty sighed and followed.

"Great!" Aura said happily and grabbed Shadow's hand. "We got rid of those two, so let's go and find Victini!"

"Sure." Shadow said with a sigh.

"No signs." Whitetail said and jumped down from the three. "I wonder how she could've disappeared like that." Mighty twitched his ears.

"There's someone else here." he said and sniffed in the air.

"Victini?" Whitetail questioned, eyeing Mighty curiously.

"No." Mighty said and growled, his gaze filled with fury. "The commanders."

"Listen!" Aura said. "I hear footsteps behind that bush! Have a look at this, Shadow..." Shadow took a few steps back, sensing that this was not a good idea.

"Aura..." he said. The riolu ignored him and jumped.

"HA! GOT YOU!" she yelled and landed on someone. Then she got hit by a Leaf Storm and jumped back. It was Leaf.

"What do you two think you're doing?" she hissed. "Sneaking on an old lady like that!"

"Why are you leaving the camp?" Shadow asked.

"I was going to take a walk." Leaf said. "It's a tradition. I've been doing that even since that fateful morning when my life changed. The morning I found her."

"What?" Aura asked, confused. "Found who?"

"Your friend." Leaf said. "Whitetail, or rather, I found her egg. Probably the strangest egg I've ever seen, it was white with golden stripes on one side, and black with red stripes on the other."

"I know." Shadow said with a nod. "I saw that in a dream once."

"A dream?" Aura asked. "When you read Giratina's mind in your sleep?" Shadow nodded. Leaf glared at them, then she continued.

"Sea, Thunder, Flame, Sun, Moon and Snow, the other leaders, all had different thoughts about it." she said. "Sea was very curious and said that she wanted to see what hatched from the egg. Thunder was suspicious; he thought that the egg was dangerous. Flame agreed with Thunder and said that he thought we should abandon the egg. Sun thought that we should keep the egg, however, he refused to help out with raising whatever hatched from it. Moon was a bit shy, she kept her thoughts to herself. Snow suggested that he could become a father figure for the child, and I agreed to be the mother."

"So you and Snow raised her like your own?" Aura asked. Leaf nodded.

"Yes, and eventually, all of the leaders grew to like her, after all she was always so optimistic and positive." she said. "No one ever told her about how we really found her, we thought that it was the safest not to tell her. Eventually, however, the other children started taunting her, lead by Flame's son Rusty." Shadow frowned at the thought of Rusty, Mermaid and Missile. Memories from End Lake passed through his mind.

"So she couldn't stand the taunting and left?" Aura asked. Leaf shook her head.

"No, and the worst was that right before that, Rusty ran over to Whitetail and told her about her origin." she said sadly. "That she wasn't really part of our clan, that she was just an outcast. I don't know where he heard it from, but I had my suspicions. I didn't speak to Flame for five months. I had lost my adopted daughter, but my fury eventually became sorrow. I thought that I would never see her again until she returned with you three, babbling nonsense about Arceus!"

"It isn't nonsense!" Aura hissed. "I am the reincarnation of the legendary aura guardian Aura, and Arceus gave me the chance to be reborn! And Shadow here used to be a human who sacrificed his life for Arceus, and then he was revived as a pokémon, just look at his eyes, THEY PROVE THAT!" She glared at the leafeon in fury.

"Aura, calm down!" Shadow said. "We won't get anywhere by screaming at each other! Don't you remember, Aura? We were supposed to find Victini!" Right then Snow, coming running out of nowhere, rushed over to Leaf.

"Snow, what is it?" Leaf asked. Snow, who had glared at Shadow and Aura for a moment, stared at Leaf in panic.

"Leaf... Intruders! A strange eevee among them!"

A/N: Ah... The words just flowed out today... I wrote the entire chapter in a bunch! Hehe, now, I want one thing. Reviews...