Rusty and Blacktail

"You!" Whitetail gasped and let out a growl. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same." Blacktail muttered. "Now, get off me!" Whitetail quickly leaped to the side, allowing him to get up.

"Hey, Whitetail, are you there?" Shadow came out of the bushes. When he spotted Rusty, Mermaid, Missile and Blacktail, his purple eyes widened in shock. "Oh. Looks like we got ourselves some company."

"Yay!" Nyara jumped out of the bushes. "They sent out someone to bring us back to civilization!"

"No, they definitely didn't." Mighty spat as he followed her and glared at Blacktail. "They're not worth to trust."

"Hey, what are they doing here?" Aura asked as she and Feather also dashed out in front of them.

"Well, we happen to live here!" Mermaid stated venomously. "Your problem?"

"Does the name-mimicker live here too?" Whitetail asked in disbelief and glared at Blacktail. "And how can he possibly know you?"

"For your information, we happen to have raised him." Rusty yelled at her.

"But how could that be possible?" Whitetail asked and glared at Rusty. "You guys are barely older than me!"

"Well, he is younger than Whitetail." Missile stated. "You see, when we were small, innocent children ("Yeah, sure." Whitetail muttered.) and Whitetail was nothing but a baby, we were exploring in the forest and found Blacktail's egg."

"And when Rusty touched it, it hatched." Mermaid continued. "We were just children, but we thought it'd be awesome to raise a baby in secret, so we kind of hid him in a cave and brought food to him and stuff."

"Well, if those three raised him, no doubt he's weird." Whitetail said with a smirk. Blacktail almost hurled himself onto her, but Mighty grabbed him by the black collar around his neck and sent him flying, landing several metres away from Whitetail.

"Don't mess with her." he growled.

"And we never let Leaf or any other of those weird leaders know about him." Rusty said.

"Let me get this straight!" Nyara yelled. "Are these guys living in the middle of a forest without any kind of connection to the outside world? That's just so... disgusting!"

"Disgusting?" Aura asked in confusion. "Maybe weird, but not disgusting. Despites, as long as you act like that on this continent, you're the one who's disgusting and weird." Nyara silenced at that reply.

"Haha! Whitetail grew up in a forest!" Feather randomly yelled out. "I did too! That's awesome!"

"Hey, why are you telling my entire lifestory without my permission?" Blacktail suddenly cried out.

"And then we joined the shadow army and brought him along." Rusty continued, seemingly enjoying to make Blacktail angry. "And after we realized that Giratina had just been Darkrai's puppet, we kinda... quit. We thought it was too confusing But Blacktail stayed, and Darkrai decided to replace Commander Mighty with him!"

"Total confusion!" Nyara and Feather yelled out in unison, as they hadn't been there half a year ago.

"I'll explain another time." Mighty said with a sigh. "Okay, why are we still standing here chatting about nonsense?"

"My lifestory is not nonsense!" Blacktail hissed. But as everybody ignored him, he just sighed in annoyance and sat down on the ground, glaring at Nyara and Feather, who both looked very confused.

"Yeah!" Aura said. "We came here looking for Giratina!" Now Rusty, Mermaid and Missile all showed some sort of interest.

"Giratina? How come?" Rusty narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

"Well, all I know is that Whitetail's dad apparenty has been kidnapped by one of Master Fortis' friends. Don't ask me." Nyara said. A sudden interest sparkled in Blacktail's eyes, but he said nothing.

"He's a human." Shadow explained.

"Human?" Rusty asked in disbelief. "Well, no matter how weird it sounds... Missile and Mermaid actually claimed that they saw a human just some hours ago, but I thought they were hallucinating."

"Told you so!" Missile barked out.

"You've seen a human?" Whitetail asked, eyes widened. "Where?"

"A few hundred metres in that direction." Mermaid pointed the direction with her tail. "He had a couple of electric-types with him. Manetric. Luxray. Electrabuzz. Ampharos. That stuff. Scary, I would say."

"Sure!" Whitetail yelled and dashed off.

"Thanks." Shadow said as his other teammates started following Whitetail.

"No problem, really." Rusty said with, twitching his ears. "We don't want you guys around here. So we figured that the best thing to do is to tell you the right direction to head in, and you'll leave us alone after that."

"All right." Shadow said, sighing at his own stupidity. Of course they didn't help out because they were nice, only to make them leave. But whatever, now they were close. He ran off after his teammates.

"That's the place, right?" Aura asked as they looked down from a cliff, seeing a cave guarded by two strong-looking wild pokémon: a luxray and a manetric.

"It has to be." Shadow said, narrowing his eyes. "We're going in."

"They'll pay for hurting Lord Giratina." Mighty growled, ferocity gleaming in his eyes.

"Hey, I have the feeling this is a bad idea." Nyara whispered. "And I'm really scared."

"And I have the feeling that this is my first important mission as an Exploration Team member, and I'm gonna do great!" Feather exclaimed.

"Feather, the always cheerful one." Whitetail stated, before turning her gaze to the cave. "Father, we're coming to save you. Just wait. We'll be there."

A/N: This one went rather fast to write. Hopefully you enjoyed it, as you got some backstory on Blacktail. Please review and tell me about your opinion.