Yena's betrayal
The evening went quickly. Nightfang somehow got all the other pokémon to organize a huge dinner which he said was for Team Saviours. Whitetail frowned as she chewed at a Black Gummi, sitting beside Shadow and Aura by the huge and long table.
"Why are they doing this?" she muttered. Shadow and Aura turned their gazes to Mighty, who was sitting between Yena and Felina. They were both talking to him non-stop. Mighty gave his teammates a desperate stare.
"You're saying it!" Aura whispered, careful so that not the purugly that sat next to her would hear. "They must have some reason, and I definitely don't think it's because of Mighty's return!"
"Something's going on." Shadow added as he watched how Felina told Mighty that the two of them now could live happily ever after. "I have a really bad feeling about this."
"This gummi tastes bad." Whitetail noted as she swallowed the last piece of the Black Gummi.
"No wonder, Whitetail, it's for dark-types." Aura said. "Why do you eat it it? Didn't you know?"
"I knew." Whitetail spat, making a grimace. "I just felt like a dark-type. I was so grumpy."
"You mean dark-types are grumpy?" Aura asked.
"Yeah. Think about Mighty." Whitetail said. "Okay, he isn't that grumpy, but..."
"Just take this and stop talking. I can't take listening." Shadow said and forced a White Gummi into Whitetail's mouth. Whitetail quickly swallowed it.
"...Okay, but I just don't like dark-types!" she then whispered. "Except Mighty, most dark-types are creepy! I mean, Darkrai's the biggest traitor in history, Mighty's sister is strange and scary, I guess his father is okay, but I think he seems easily manipulated, Moon, the umbreon leader of EeveeClan, is mysterious and always glared at me in a strange way, and..."
"Oh, what are you talking about?" Yena suddenly asked. "Felina, the children seem to have some interesting conversation over there!"
"Oh, I was just talking about how adorable you guys are, Yena." Whitetail said innocently, a little bit of sarcasm barely to be heard in her voice. "Don't call us children! We're teenagers! Despites, we've experienced more things last year than you have in your entire lifetime!"
"Oh, will you tell us what happened to you last year?" Felina asked in false sweetness.
"We saved the world from an evil dark-type." Whitetail said. Yena and Felina started laughing. "I wasn't being sarcastic!" Whitetail yelled furiously. "Ask Mighty, he was with us too!"
"That's true." Mighty said, grinning widely as he saw Yena's and Felina's stares.
"Seems like Darkfur has stayed too long with those children and started imagining that games are real." Yena said. Mighty glared at her in fury.
"If you want to know where the scar on my nose comes from, she gave me it." he said and looked at Whitetail. "You shouldn't get into a fight with her." Yena laughed, but then she seemed to notice that Mighty actually had a scar above his nose, and stopped, probably trying to figure out how an eevee could succeed with that. Felina glared at Whitetail as she found that Mighty was taking their side, not hers.
"You should go to bed." she then said. "It's getting late. We can talk more tomorrow before the children leave." As the skuntank escorted Team Saviours to their room, Aura looked worried.
"What's wrong?" Shadow asked, silently so that not the skuntank would hear. Luckily, he was busy talking to Mighty. "You look troubled."
"Didn't you hear what Felina said?" Aura whispered. "'The children leave!' They're not going to let Mighty leave!"
Shadow, Aura and Whitetail recieved another room than Mighty, who was forced to stay in his old room. Luckily, as Whitetail said, the rooms were side by side so they could hear if something happened in Mighty's room.
"I can't sleep!" Whitetail said.
"It's the middle of the night..." Aura said sleepily and closed her eyes. Shadow seemed to already be asleep. Whitetail sighed and got up.
"I'm going for a night walk!" she said. No response. She sighed, opened the door and went outside the room. Then she closed it. She went into Mighty's room. He was fast asleep. But someone else wasn't. Felina was sitting beside him, guarding him.
"What are you doing here?" she hissed as she spotted Whitetail.
"Night walk!" Whitetail said innocently.
"You haven't been to the castle's library, have you?" Felina hissed.
"No!" Whitetail replied. Hmm... What was so interesting with the library? Felina seemed to calm down a bit.
"All right then." she said. "I won't report to the king if you go back to your room now!" Whitetail went outside, followed by Felina, who watched her every move. Then she opened the door to Team Saviours' room, went inside and closed the door. Or, that was all Felina saw. She didn't notice the shadowy, invisible Whitetail, who came out through the room's wall. Whitetail chuckled silently and continued using Shadow Force while going down the corridor. She knew where she was to head next. The forbidden library.
She reached a door made out of steel, where a tired-looking liepard sat on guard, desperately trying to stay awake. She smirked. She had always wanted to try this.
"Is this the library?" she whispered into the liepard's ear. She immediately jolted awake.
"W-who are you?" she asked in terror.
"I am the ghost of Queen Yumi!" Whitetail said, trying to sound spooky. "And I ask you, is this the library? Answer me, or you shall be cursed for all eternity!"
"Yes! This is the library!" the liepard said, terrified. Whitetail said nothing more, simply went thrugh the door and came into the library.
"Idiot." she said, laughing. "Why would Queen Yumi have asked where the library was? She lived here in the castle!" She stopped using Shadow Force and headed inside. The shelves were filled with ancient books. On a table, there was a huge silver-coloured book. Whitetail curiously walked up to it. It was called History of the Tribe of Wilderness. Was this book the reason Felina had forbidden her to go to the library? Whitetail opened the book at a random page and started reading. It really was old, since it was written in unown language. Luckily, her mother had taught her how to read unown.
The most remarkable point in the history of our Tribe happened over 3.000 years ago. Our Tribe's leader back then was King Yen, a mightyena famous for his wisdom. Pokémon came from far away to learn things from Yen. But he had a special test you had to pass if you wanted to take part of his wisdom. You had to defeat him in a battle. Yen was not only wise. He was strong and skilled also. If you beat him, you got to ask him one question. Only one. If you lost, you were punished. And not just any punishment. Yen would personally kill you.
Then, one day, even Arceus became curious of how Yen became so wise. She sent three servants to find out how. Lightning, a luxray, and his apprentices, Feather, a pidgeotto, and Aura, a riolu. The later two were to become some of the world's most famous pokémon, but they were still young back then. They arrived at the Tribe, met Yen, and Lightning challenged him. Lightning, after a long and hard battle, lost, and was killed by Yen. Since this happened, we have tried to struggle on, hated by Arceus forever.
Whitetail stared at the text in the book. Hated by Arceus forever... Mighty was one of them. If her mother found out... She heard how the door opened and quickly used Shadow Force again. Yena came inside, followed by four pokémon. Not just any pokémon, Whitetail quickly noted. The commanders. Everyone of them wore some strange black necklaces...
"So, you four think you're capable of murder?" Yena said, watching the foursome.
"Definitely." Spirit said and smirked. "Who do you want us to kill? How many?"
"Well..." Yena said. "Five. My father, my brother and his three strange friends. I've been planning on killing the first two for years." Whitetail stared in horror. That was why Yena had wanted them to stay! She was intending to murder them! And betray her father!
"Not a problem." Dusk said. "We'll fix this. If we succeed, do we get access to your territory whenever we want? We think it's possible some of our enemies are hiding closeby."
"Yes." Yena said with a smile. "You get to do whatever you want." Whitetail panicked. She had to warn the others! But Felina would notice, and since Yena and Felina were friends, it was possible that Felina too knew about Yena's plan and was part of it! But what if not? What if she was loyal to the king? She wasn't, Whitetail decided. If Felina got in the way, she would have to taste some claws...
"There's someone else here." Blacktail suddenly said. "I can sense it, in a strange way..." Whitetail quickly hurried towards the door, but Blacktail seemed to sense that she was there and jumped in the way. She collided into him, and then she was no longer invisible.
"The princess!" Marionette yelled. "She's heard everything!"
"Princess? I'm the only princess around here!" Yena said in confusion and stared at Whitetail.
"Not anymore!" Whitetail yelled and speeded towards the door, which Yena had left open when she came inside. "Excuse me, I haven't introduced myself yet! Princess Whitetail, daughter of Queen Arceus and Lord Giratina! And now, see you!" She slipped out of the door.
"Get her!" Blacktail growled and ran after her, quickly followed by the other commanders and a very confused Yena.
A/N: I was supposed to make this chapter and the next one in the same chapter, but it doesn't seem like it's turning out like that now... Well, the next chapter will be filled with fights, as you probably can guess! Please review this chapter, I did a hard work with it and I'd like to see that someone appreciates it!