As Shade ran through the dark forest, a few certain thoughts came to her mind. For one, she was completely alone. Secondly, she was scaring other pokemon by just looking at them. Finding friends was going to prove to be difficult.

Her little run ended up taking her to the Johto Region. During her travels, she had suffered a rather large number of injuries from pokemon trying to protect themselves or their families. No matter how much she was hurting, she had to keep moving.

"A-AHH! G-Get away!" Said a distant voice. Shade thought that this was just another pokemon running away due to her aura, but she felt something different. A..human was in trouble? Shade shook her head and continued to press forward.

"P-Please! Somebody! Anybody! Help me!" Said the voice again. Shade pinned down in her mind that this was definitely a human and quickly rushed to the pleading voice. During her journey, Shade had learned that not all humans were bad. The ones who ran the pokemon centers used to give her food when she decided to sleep near one to keep out of danger.

When she finally reached the source of the voice, she gasped. A little boy, that couldn't have been older than 11 was being hunted down by a pack of Bedrill. 12 of them to be exact. The boy was running and crying, hoping that someone or something would stop the bug types from catching him. Soon, he tripped over a tree root and covered his head, preparing for the worse.

Shade finally couldn't watch anymore. She stopped in front of the pack of bugs, and with one blast of Psychic, knocked them all out. She then turned to the boy, poking his side slightly.

"H-Huh?" He asked, sniffling as he looked up, noticing that the Beedrill were gone and he was totally unharmed. His eyes then fell on the Ralts in front of him. "D-Did you chase away all of those mean Beedrill?" He asked.

Shade nodded before hopping into his lap. She didn't know why, but she felt some warm feelings coming from this human, much warmer than the feeling she got when she was fed by Nurse Joy.

The boy giggled and petted Shade's head, smiling at her. "Wow, you must be pretty strong for such a little guy." He said.

Shade shook her head and grabbed a nearby twig and drawing the symbol for females in the dirt. "Oh, I'm sorry. I meant little girl." He said, rubbing the back of his head. Shade nodded and smiled.

"Say, would you like to meet my mother? We could both use a good meal." He said, putting her on the ground and lowering a hand to her. Shade hesitated a bit before nodding and grabbing his hand and following him.

-o0o-

"And the rest you already know…" Luna said, sighing a bit before taking a sip of coffee. Zack, Gold, Yami, Jake, and Eve were sitting around her as she told the tale from when she was born to the point where she met Gold.

"So, I guess over time, you just suppressed your shadow side and became just a regular pokemon, even though you were never correctly purified." Said Gold. Luna nodded.

"Well, I think I know what must be done…how about you?" Zack said, smiling.

"What are you talking about?" Luna asked. Yami and Jake smiled at each other before running around.

"Yay! Road Trip! Road Trip!" They said, giggling a bit as they ran around the room.

"You mean….your going to get me purified?" Luna asked, looking at Gold. He nodded. "Of course. I mean, first, we have to get a few directions and we need to find out which region the closest purification spot is. Call it a hunch but I believe that Cynthia would have all of that information." He said.

"Oh, you're just the best, Gold! Hehe, you get something special from me later on~" She said, giggling and winking at him, causing him to blush.

"Well, it seems you two need time alone. I'll go see if Misty and Dawn want to tag along. Come on, Kids." Zack said, himself, Eve and the kids leaving the house, leaving Luna and Gold alone.

"We'll call Cynthia later today. Hopefully, we can get this done easily, but I highly doubt that." Gold said, sitting back in the chair.

"I'm still happy that your willing to go through all that trouble just for my sake." She said, giggling and suddenly jumping on gold, giving him a nice hug. Gold smiled and rubbed her head.

"Hehe, of course I would, Luna. I love you, and I'd do anything to help you." He said, returning the hug.

"Maybe I should give you that 'something special' right now, before the kids get back?" She asked, smiling and winking at her. Gold only blushed in response, causing Luna to giggle.