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Chapter Five: Night

My brother's a werewolf.

The conversation was long over, but Moon was still mulling over its contents. Dumbledore had gone over every detail—how her brother was bitten, how he was allowed into the school regardless, how he had made friends with a select few people who had accepted his condition and how every single one of those people had been torn away from him.

"He was distraught," Dumbledore had said. "He left not long after the funerals. I haven't heard much from him since, only a few messages saying that he is alive and not to worry."

Twenty years older than her. A werewolf. Has been living on the fringes of society for years. All of his friends are dead or in prison. A werewolf. Too ashamed to ask for help after everything that was done to make his life more endurable. A werewolf.

A werewolf.

She let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding. Moon had been so focused on the story of her brother that the rest of the conversation had been blurred. She remembered Dumbledore explaining the different houses, what sort of lessons she could be expecting, and dozens of other pieces of information that she had absorbed, but not actually listened to.

What did being a werewolf mean? It was obviously not something one would wish to be, given the way the headmaster describe her brother's fear and shame of his condition. Was it painful to transform? When was it contagious? How many of the rumours about werewolves were true?"

Moon snarled in frustration as she fell back against the four poster bed. Her guest room was rather spacious. Almost too spacious to actually fit inside the actual castle. She wondered if there were spells that fit larger spaces in smaller areas in a similar way to the way her bag or her pokéballs did. There was enough room to let her pokémon out, but she didn't feel up to giving an explanation to her team just yet. She was exhausted, angry, upset, and a billion other things, and she swore she could hear her mentor's best friend, Blue, joking about mood swings.

Don't think about them don't think about them they're too far away don't think about them.

"Moon?"

She jumped back into a sitting position, and sighed in relief when she saw the speaker.

"Rotom. You scared me."

"My apologiezz. I haven't been able to match our location on the world map."

"We're not on the world map," she muttered.

"Zzt? How iz that possible?"

"It's like that time we were in Ultra Space, except there's people here and not parasitic jellyfish."

"I am still fully operational."

"I can see that. I meant that, whatever those bastards did, it sent us to an alternate dimension."

"Zzt? What dimension? Are we stuck here?"

"I don't know the name of the dimension," she snapped, "and yes, we are stuck here until someone figures out a way to get us back."

"We're all stuck here?"

"Yes."

"Even the beasts?"

Moon froze. Slowly, almost mechanically, she dug into her purse. She retracted her hand, tightly clenching the ten beast balls she had.

Shit

The Ultra Beasts didn't count as pokémon, and so when Moon captured them on orders from the International Police, they weren't sent to the PC storage. She kept them close by at all times, never sending them out unless she was sure she wasn't being watched. She hadn't intended to bring them on the chase, but they had been in the bag since she had taken them out to play the night before.

In some ways, it was good that she had them with her. If anyone searched her rooms, the Ultra Beasts wouldn't accidently be discovered and taken away for experimentation like the original plan called for. On the other hand, her ability to let them walk around freely for brief periods of time had disappeared. Her pokémon could fit in the room one at a time, but the beasts were simply too big.

She dropped the balls back into the bag, whispering an apology as she did so. Unless something drastic happened, she'd have to keep them all in their beast balls until they returned home.

"I hate this," she moaned. "I'd take Hau dragging me out for malasada or Gladion acting all edgy again over this."

"You don't like malasada?"

"Not after eating ten in one day," Moon groaned. "And that's not the point."

"You don't know how to get back home?" Rotom asked.

"People say they'll work on it, but I have no idea if they have any idea what to look for without the tech. They want me to be their definition of what a thirteen year old is, they won't take advice from me, I'm sure of it. Unless someone from our side is working on it, we're stuck here."

Aside from the small clicks and buzzes that Rotom made, the room was silent.

"It won't be forever," Rotom promised. "It's statistically impossible."

"The people here—"

"Our friendz back home will notice. They have the toolz needed to find us."

Moon let out another breath. "Yeah. You're right, we can't be stuck here forever."

"That'z the spirit!"

She laughed half-heartedly as Rotom tucked itself back inside her bag to sleep. The mischievous ghost had always lifted her spirits when things got rough.

"They'll find me," she whispered to herself. "One way or another, I'll be going home."

She changed into the pyjamas she had brought with her and tucked herself into bed. Even with the candles blown out, the room was brighter than she was used to. Starlight flooded through the narrow window on the wall her bed was pressed against. She stared out the window, watching the night sky.

The stars look different here.

She stared at the new night sky for an hour, taking in the sight that was so familiar and so foreign at the same time. At the league base on top of Mount Lanakila, stars blanketed the sky. She was amazed the first time she saw it, as the sky had always been blurred by city lights.

Her eyes lazily followed a cloud as it drifted just below the shining moon. She saw that the moon was nearly full. She sat up and yanked the heavy velvet curtain across the window, shutting the room in complete darkness. Moon pulled the blanket up to her chin and turned her back to the wall, trying to ignore the idea of her brother suffering somewhere, completely alone.

Short chapter today, hope you guys don't mind.

Thanks for all your kind reviews so far. And hey, more Rotom-dex! Which a lot of people seem to like, actually, so I'll keep that in mind.

Her pokémon, unfortunately, don't make an appearance for a long time. So, to sort of make up for the short chapter, here is a line-up:

Decidueye, Kommo-o, Ninetales (Alolan), Magnezone, Lycanroc (Midnight form), and Silvally

As for the Ultra Beasts: 1 Nihilego, 1 Buzzwole, 1 Pheromosa, 2 Xurkitree, 2 Celesteela, 2 Kartana, and 1 Guzzlord

Note of interest: I'm not strictly basing Moon's journey through Alola on either version of the game. It leans slightly more heavily towards Pokémon Sun, as that is what I've played myself, but things such as game-specific pokémon (or Ultra Beasts) are not taken into account. Nebby evolved into Solgaleo, but Moon isn't carrying Nebby around everywhere, so he won't make an appearance until later. I haven't actually written that far yet.

Anyway, enjoy the rest of your week, and please leave a review!