Riolu didn't know what to think. A pokémon capturer saved two pokémon from… another pokémon capturer? What? This world is strange enough. In his thinking, he ended up making noise back where he was. "What was that?" The human said out loud. He looked around for a little bit. He finally broke the silence. "Come on out, i won't hurt you." He said out loud again. "Yeah right," Riolu thought as he frowned. After a few seconds of silence, the human spoke. "I know it's you, Riolu." Rioli gulped. Goodbye world, this is the end. The human kept calling for him, walking around the room. This human is so annoying! Riolu thought through clenched teeth. "That's it. I'm going out and I'm gonna send him packing." Riolu growled to himself. He looked to see the human with his back to him.
He jumped from behind the machines. The human lifted his head and turned around. "Riolu! I'm glad you're safe. I thought they were holding you here for ransom. Or… worse." The human looked at the ground. Riolu huffed. What is this? Was this human… worried about him? "What is a pokémon so rare as you doing in Eterna city?" The human said to him. Riolu was silent. "I know Riolu can talk to people. You can tell me." He said kneeling down to his height. Riolu was uncomfortable with this demonstration of trust, coming from a pokémon capturer. He decided to physically speak one phrase to the human. "I don't like or trust you." He growled. The human seemed a bit stunned from hearing him speak. The human had a confused look. "You didn't answer my question." Riolu frowned. What kind of game is he playing? "I will not answer it." The human looked at him for a moment. He shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever. Anyway, why don't you like me? You think that woman was better?" Oh, he was really asking for it. "What do you think?" Riolu growled as he took a step back. "I have heard of you. I've heard what you all do. I've experienced it. You capture pokémon and take them as slaves, forcing them to fight other pokémon. That woman over there was not any different from you."
Hearing this, the human frowned. He stood up. He reached into his bag and slowly pulled out a capturing ball. He stared at Riolu, still frowning, and threw it to the ground. Treecko burst out, sounding his cry as he did so. "This is Treecko. One of my pokémon partners." Riolu huffed. ""Partners?" As if I will believe that." The human continued, ignoring Riolu. "I am not a "pokémon capturer". I am a trainer, pokémon trainer. I take two pokémon with me around to travel this region of Sinnoh. They are Treecko and Piplup, but he is fainted right now." Riolu did a cross-arm motion. "So you let pokémon faint in battle and then just get ride of them?" The trainer looked at Riolu, horrified. "I would never do that. Sure there are medicines I can give Piplup but they're for emergencies. And they're really bitter. He doesn't like them. I prefer to walk back to the pokémon center and heal him there. Dang, who told you all these stories about pokémon trainers? I can assure they're all fake." Riolu fell silent. It was common rumors among pokémon, there wasn't really a "someone". It was believed when a wild pokémon was caught, it was brainwashed and captured forever, and those who returned to the wild were never the same again. They came back confused. They forgot the ways of the wild and couldn't live on their own again.
Riolu didn't realize he was dozing for two minutes while the trainer just stood there with Treecko. Riolu was snapped back to reality after the trainer called him. Riolu looked up at him, his eyes full of worry. "What happened to you?" He asked Riolu. Riolu looked at the ground. So much had happened. But he couldn't really tell anyone, not yet. He sighed. "Listen. Do you have anyplace to stay?" Riolu looked at him. Yeah, he had nowhere to stay. But why would that matter? "If not, then what are you going to do? " Riolu jumped. "Are you kidding? I don't have any idea of what to do after… all this." He said, scared. The trainer looked around. "Over here is not safe either. What if you're chased by team galactic again?" Riolu looked troubled. What to do? Stuck in strange place with no stable place to go and danger roaming everywhere he went… it was not an easy decision. He lifted an eyebrow at the trainer. "Why do you care so much?" The trainer frowned. "I'm starting to not like you." Riolu looked at the wall. "I don't trust you, "trainer"." He said.
The human sighed and stood up. "My name is not "trainer". It's Lucas." Treecko, who was watching them without saying a word, did a cross-arm gesture. "Listen, you're a pokemon, so I need to get close up data on you. Would you be so kind as to let me study you thoroughly and then you'll never see me again?" Riolu thought for a moment. He needed that data. And Riolu needed to get out of there safely. "Let's make a deal." Said Riolu. The trainer stared at him. "Deal?" Riolu nodded. "You get me somewhere safe, in the wild, and on the way, I'll let you, um, "study" me. Deal?" He held out his paw. Lucas looked at him with a weird face. "What kind of deal is that?" Riolu held his paw with his other paw. "My arm is getting tired!" Lucas, seeing as he had no other choice to get the data, leaned over and shook his paw. "…Deal." He said, annoyed.
Riolu jumped up. "Alright! Let's get moving." He reached for the stairs, leading down. Lucas rolled his eyes and followed him. As they reached they reached the area outside, Riolu looked up at the dark sky and the shiny moon. He didn't notice it was night time. He looked back to Lucas as he came out of the building. He stepped onto the street. Rioli walked to the end of the street right of the Galactic building. "Hey, what's that?" He said, pointing to a huge statue of a pokémon. Lucas joined him. "That's the pokémon statue of Eterna City. It used to be the centerpiece of many festivals. It tells of the myth of the legendary pokémon who created Sinnoh." Riolu listened to him, marveled. "What is the myth about?" he asked Lucas. Lucas put a hand to his chin and the other to support it, in a thinking motion. "No one knows much about it except for old people, because it's really old. I do remember a saying from a book about this. It said "Two beings set free from the Original One". I'm sure this Original One is another powerful pokémon along with the two legendaries, but I don't know who." Riolu didn't know Lucas was so knowledgeable about myths and legends. He wanted to know more about it. Maybe he should ask about everything to Lucas, he might know. This might not be another ordinary human after all.