Just the aftermath; short chapter. Things in this chapter may be explained in later chapters.

-K9P

"What the hell happened to you? You seem depressed…"

"I don't want to talk about it, Glaceon," he responded. He took his glass, holding about 12 fluid ounces, and drank all of the orange juice in it. He slammed the glass on the table.

"Was it something that happened last night?" Glaceon asked.

"Yes, and I don't want to talk about it."

"C'mon Alex, no one else is here. No one's gonna know. Taking this thing off of your chest now is better than taking it off later at a bad time."

"Want me to tell you what happened?" Alex asked.

"You seemed pissed," Glaceon responded.

Alex slams his right fist on the table, "Damn straight I'm pissed!"

Seems bad... Glaceon thought. "So, what happened?" Alex left from his stool, with the glass, and refilled his glass. He sat back down on his stool.

"Ok, so it kind of…it started out like this…"

"…So he took her out?"

"That's what I keep getting."

"Hm…this could be bad for us… You know him, is that right?"

"Yes."

"Ok then…you can't let him find out about us."

"Yes sir."

"If you do let him find out about us, then we'll take care of him."

"…"

"If he finds out about you, we won't do anything; it is your job to take care of yourself. You got that?"

"Yes—"

"Then get out of here."

"So she said he was partially yellow?"

"Yeah; partially yellow."

"Don't you know someone who's partially yellow?"

"I don't know, and I'm not planning to find out soon."

"Ok then…are you planning to sell the Full Restore?"

"No, I'm saving it for when I need it the most."

"What if someone else in the group needs it?"

"Unless their wounds are major, they're not having it."

"Hm…"

"Whatever." Luxray walks off from the Valley Cut, then stopping halfway. Damn it—I have nowhere to go… Absol walks up to Luxray; Luxray turns around and says, "'Need to ask you something."

"What do you need?" asked Absol.

"Did you actually wanted to come with me to Beach Cave?" he asked. Absol looked away from Luxray. "C'mon, be honest with me." She took a deep, and said,

"Well, yeah, a little bit… and because I didn't want to see you hurt when you got out from the cave, whether if you were forced out or find your way out."

"But you did see me get hurt—" Absol looked away from Luxray.

"But less than I would've imagined…"

"I also saw you get hurt when you came with me…" Absol then looked at Luxray again. Absol was about to say something, until Luxray interrupted her. "I know what you're gonna ask. I-I was little afraid that you would get hurt, to say the least. I almost stopped caring after the roundabout incident…" Absol raised an eye.
"Then I cared again with the Armaldo invasion…" She lowered her eye. "I was a little in shock and in regret, somehow, when you were attacked. Thought you were gonna get killed…" Luxray gave a nervous laugh after what he said.

Absol seemed to be speechless, looking away from him. "W-wow, I-I don't know what to say…"

"There's no need," responded Luxray. "And I'm not just saying that, there really is no need…" He turns around again, and walks slightly away from her, then stops again. "I'm heading over to Luke's. Wanna come?"

Absol still looked away from Luxray, "No."

"You sure?"

"Yes…I'm sure." Luxray walked away, stopped, and looked at Absol, who still was looking away. He walked on a little further, stopped again, and looked at Absol again. He repeated the same thing again. I gotta stop looking back… Luxray thought. He ran off, trying to forget Absol for the day.

He reaches to the house, finding Glaceon sitting at the table alone. He walks over to him. "Hey Glaceon," He looks at his facial expression: all blank, staring down the wooden material of the table. "Hey, Glay…"

"Please don't call me that," responded Glaceon. He didn't have a mad expression in his voice; it was hard to tell for Luxray to what expression he's making out.

"Got something wrong with you?" Luxray asked.

"…Not exactly," Glaceon responded.

"You seem to be…" Luxray tried to think of something, "uh," Not yourself? Yeah, I'll go with that "…Not yourself."

"It was just something Alex told me." He knew Luxray was about to ask. "I don't want to talk about it. Just leave me alone for now."

"Ok…" Luxray walked away from Glaceon, wondering what he was told by Alex.