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To the Moon and Back II: Steal the Sun

by Delusional Potato

Chapter 3: The Egg

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"Ohh! So close!"

Luna attempted to use a Solar Beam attack on a large rock next to Lake Verity. However, as she tried to charge the sunbeams into her body, the beam she fired sputtered out pathetically, barely leaving a scratch in the rock.

"That was really good!" Shaymin encouraged, "But... Maybe grass type moves aren't your thing..."

"Can't we try something else?" Luna asked.

Shaymin shrugged, "I'm only a grass type. I do know some normal attacks, but they aren't as strong. Oh! Oh! I do know Confusion! That's a psychic type move. Maybe you can learn that one!"

"Confusion?" Luna asked.

"It's a mental attack. It can leave your opponent completely confused and unable to attack because it gives them a headache!"

Or she could just complain nonstop until her opponent leaves. Luna thought to herself.

"But maybe I could teach you how to use it!" Shaymin cheered happily, "Unfortunately, you can't exactly use it on a rock because... Well, it's a rock. It doesn't have a mind to attack."

Luna shrugged, "True."

"So, I will bravely volunteer and be the punching dummy." Shaymin said, smiling smugly.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive! I'm a lot tougher than I look!"

"Well... Okay."

Shaymin braced herself, "Now, all you have to do is focus all mental power on to the target. You'll know it's working when they get super dizzy and sick-looking!"

Luna gulped, "Okay..." Slowly, she closed her eyes. A very slight glow erupted from her body, transferring to Shaymin. The gratitude pokémon gained a throbbing pain in her head and a dizzy, off-balanced feeling.

"Okay okay stop!" She yelled, falling backwards and grabbing her head, "Ow... My head..."

Luna approached the small hedgehog, giving a sympathetic look, "I'm sorry."

Shaymin quickly stood up, struggling to retain balance, "It's okay! I've taken more powerful hits than that before. But that was really good! I've got a headache, something fierce."

Luna chuckled, "You sure are tough for such a little thing."

"Oh, you haven't seen my most powerful move yet!" Shaymin giggled, "Seed Flare!"

"Seed Flare? Doesn't sound all that strong."

"Au contraire! Whenever I get around pollution or something dirty, I can absorb it. Then, I can filter it out as nothing but pure energy. I almost destroyed an entire city by how much pollution I sucked in and pushed out."

Luna seemed to have misjudged the little hedgehog, "Oh... My gracious."

"Would you like me to demonstrate?"

"No no! That's okay. I'm good with Confusion and Solar Beam."

At that very moment, something with a great amount of weight landed behind them, shaking the trees. Luna and Shaymin turned, seeing the large form of Giratina standing behind them.

"Hello, Giratina," Luna greeted, "How was it?"

"Well, luckily no one got hurt," Giratina chuckled, "Though we came very close to a Legendary Civil War though, with what, Moltres and Articuno's disagreement."

"Ice bird and fire bird?" Shaymin asked. She immediately shuddered afterwards, "Guh! Glad I didn't go!"

"Oh, Giratina!" Luna suddenly spoke up, "I've got something to show you!"

Giratina sighed, "I'd love to stay, but I've got something I have to do first. I just dropped in to make sure you were both okay."

Luna raised an eyebrow, "Why wouldn't we be okay?"

Giratina didn't want to scare her with the recent reports of Discord being sighted near by, "Just... Making sure everything was okay."

"Oh, but where do you need to be? You just got back."

Giratina searched for a believable alibi, "Dialga and Palkia wanted to speak to me in private once everyone had left."

"Could I just show you something before you go?" Luna begged.

Giratina looked sympathetically at the alicorn, "I... Guess I can stick around for a little while to see what you have."

A smile crossed Luna's face. She raised her head to the warm sun above, as if soaking in its magnificent rays.

"Wait! We haven't practiced that one enough!" Shaymin squealed.

Luna didn't listen. Rays of sun surrounded her body and charged into her horn. Bracing her hooves firmly against the ground, a beam of pure energy shot foward from Luna's horn, hitting Giratina square in the chest. He wasn't affected much by it, since dragon-type was strong against grass-type. He did stagger a bit and had to rely on each of his muscular, six legs to keep him from toppling over.

"I've been teaching her how to use pokémon moves!" Shaymin cheered happily, "And wow! She has Solar Beam down!"

Giratina retained his smirk, despite the slight feeling of burning on his chest, "That was impressive. But can it handle the mighty power of Dragon Rage?" From his mouth came a beam of blue, and purple. He purposely missed Luna, since even a weak Dragon Rage could prove to be a harmful attack if it hit the right spot.

Luna charged up another attack, but this one was not Solar Beam, "Your accuracy is off! You need to learn how to hit your target!" She tried for Confusion, but Giratina disappeared. However, Luna remembered that Confusion was a mental attack, meaning she could hit Giratina wherever he was. She focus her mental energy on an image of Giratina, before finally hearing a loud groan from the great renegade. He appeared a few feet short of being right next to Luna, cringing with the mental pain of Confusion. Luna took this chance to fly up to his face and sneak a kiss right on his cheek.

"You aren't as big and tough as you seem." She taunted.

Shaymin groaned in disgust, "Not this lovey-dovey junk again..."

Giratina smirked at the alicorn before he began to charge up another Dragon Rage attack, "You haven't seen anything yet."

Luna flew back down and charged up her Solar beam attack. She smirked through the blinding sunbeams surrounding her body. They both fired their attacks, both beams colliding in a crossfire. Giratina's beam of blue started to shrink back towards him, being pushed by Luna's Solar Beam. He put in more effort and power, not too much, but enough to get the beams equal again. Luna forced her beam to fight against Giratina's Dragon Rage though, almost to the point that Giratina put in his full power.

However, they were interrupted when the crossfire exploded. The explosion was loud and strong enough to shake the land, throw Shaymin into the bushes, and cause Giratina to slide back a few feet. Luna almost went flying backwards as well, but managed to keep her balance. When the smoke cleared, a large, smoking crater was in between Luna and Giratina where their beams had met. Shaymin toddled out of the bushes, covered in dust and scratches.

"What in the name of Arceus was that?!" She roared angrily.

Giratina approached the smoking crater, "I don't know. I've been in crossfires before, and of course they have exploded before, but never this strongly."

Luna approached the edge of the crater as well, "Hey! There is something on the bottom!"

Flapping his great wings, Giratina cleared the smoke from the crater, allowing for them to see what was at the bottom. There appeared to be something glowing with a gentle purple light, but it was buried under a mound of disturbed dirt. Luna slid to the bottom of the crater in hopes of getting a closer look.

"Don't!" Giratina warned, "It could be something dangerous, or, or... Radioactive!"

Luna rolled her eyes, "I doubt it. If it was, we would already be dead." She brushed the dirt aside and gasped, "Why, it's an egg!"

Shaymin toddled down the side of the crater and approached Luna, "Whoa! It's got glowing purple spots!"

"See?" Giratina growled, "An egg doesn't glow! That's not natural!"

"Actually, it is very natural." A different voice interrupted. Giratina turned while Luna and Shaymin crawled out of the crater. Standing behind them was a deer-like creature with sea-blue fur and a labyrinth of many, massive horns.

"Who are you?" Luna asked.

"I am Xerneas of the Kalos region," The great deer spoke in a gentle voice, "I recently met with Giratina on Spear Pillar. I heard the explosion as I was leaving and decided to investigate."

Giratina sighed, "Well... It's good to see you again, Xerneas."

Xerneas smiled kindly, "As to you too, Giratina. I see you have an egg." He gestured to Luna, who was now holding the egg.

"Oh, I don't know where this came from," Luna explained, "Was it already buried under there?"

"No no." Xerneas answered. He approached the alicorn and examined the egg with curiosity, "This hasn't happened in many, many millennia. It is very rare occurrence... Both of your powers just created a new life."

Luna and Giratina exchanged glances.

"What do you mean?" Giratina asked.

Xerneas smiled, "Being the Life Giver, I know how each life comes into the world. Every last pokémon and human, I know exactly how they came to be alive. Giratina, this is exactly how you, and almost every Legendary -myself included- was born. We came from the great Arceus, who used his godly powers to create us. Although the Big Three -you, Dialga, and Palkia- were not born as everyone else was."

Giratina was lost, "I'm not exactly following you, Xerneas."

"Well, Arceus didn't have enough power to create you," Xerneas continued, "For you, Giratina, he combined his powers with someone else -someone whom I do not know the name of. For the rest of the world and the Legendaries, he used the uncontrollable chaos of the Void to create every first life. That's how you, somewhat, formed this egg." He gestured to the purple and black egg still being held by Luna, "Your powers of the chaos-filled Distortion World, and her great powers created this egg -this new life."

A smile grew on Luna's face, "So you mean we... Gave birth to a baby?"

Giratina blushed crimson red, "I uh... A baby?"

Xerneas looked a little confused, "There's no way to tell what will come from it. The way that Arceus created the very first living creatures was controlled, despite the elements that he was dealing with. This however, was very uncontrolled and unpredicted. Even I can not say what will be born from this egg, if anything."

Giratina and Luna exchanged glances for the umpteenth time.

"Perhaps whatever does come out of this egg," Luna began, "We can raise it as our own."

"Yeah!" Shaymin added after being quiet for so long, "You can be a daddy, Giratina!"

"Oh no no no," Giratina quickly said, "I have no time to raise a child! With just monitoring the Distortion World, my plate is full of responsibilities!"

Luna rolled her eyes and playfully nudged the great renegade, "Come on. We'll have fun raising whatever comes out of this egg!"

"But what if it's some sort of freakish deformed monster?"

Luna raised an eyebrow, "With all due respect... Have you seen yourself?"

"I take offense to that!"

"I'm just saying... You are not one to talk."

Xerneas interrupted them, "Have you two been married a while?"

Giratina was confused by the question, "Well no... Legally, we are not married."

"You could have fooled me," Xerneas chuckled a bit, "You two sure do argue like an old married couple." He then started to take off into the woods, but Giratina quickly stopped him.

"Can I talk to you in private, Xerneas?" He asked the life pokémon.

"Of course. What do you wish to talk about?"

"My brother," Giratina said lowly, "He's... Truly dead, isn't he?"

Xerneas' face became grave, "Yes, unfortunately so. I do not sense his life force in this world anymore. He has already been claimed by Yveltal and taken into the afterlife."

"Well, you are the pokémon of life, aren't you?"

"I am."

"Could... Is there any possible way to bring him back?"

Xerneas looked as though he had just been told to kill himself, "Excuse me?"

"Is there any way to get him back? He was wrongly murdered, and I feel as though it was my fault."

"Giratina, you do realize that tampering with the forces of life and death is a very dangerous game, right?"

"Well, yes... But what if someone's death was wrong and never meant to happen?"

"Then me and Yveltal have no control over it. It just happens. Besides, one of us is not allowed to tamper in the other's territory. For example, if I brought someone back that Yveltal had already claimed, he wouldn't be too happy about it and would likely go on a rampage. Likewise, if Yveltal was to claim someone whom was not ready for the afterlife, I would be very unhappy about his rash decision. It is a very orderly process, and we have someone to keep us from making too many lives that would overpopulate the world, or kill off too many innocent lives. His name is Zyngrade, and if one of us gets out of hand, he will know and will put us back on the right track. Trust me, neither me nor Yveltal want a punishment from him."

Giratina looked slightly pained, "I see... Perhaps it was stupid for me to ask such a question."

Xerneas gave Giratina a sympathetic look, "I understand your angst about your brother's wrongful murder. Yes, it was wrong in many ways, and the creature who killed him does not deserve to live another minute, but that is how the world works. There are many criminals out there, vying to destroy everything. But so long as there is a hero to balance them out, we'll all be safe from harm," He gestured for Giratina to lean down closer, "I know one thing, and that is you must prevent the criminal who took your brother's life from taking anymore of your loved ones, including the Rapidash, Shaymin, and the egg you just recently created."

Giratina seemed a little confused, but he shook his head in agreement.

With no hesitation, Xerneas took off into the woods that surrounded Lake Verity. His graceful form disappeared into the shadows of the woods, leaving Giratina to wonder what all of Xerneas' words really meant.


"Entei, that is a horrible idea."

The great beast of the volcanos bared his teeth, "And what do you suggest we do, Lunar pokémon?"

The two were standing just a few paces away from the Old Château's front lawn.

Cressalia glared, "Rushing into immediate attack without a plan is a bad idea. We don't know what lies beyond those doors."

Entei growled, "I shall scorch the place to the ground! That will get rid of Discord for good!"

"You can't!" Cressalia argued, "Ghost pokémon live here. You cannot kill them when all we wish to do is see why Discord is here in the first place."

Entei wasn't happy, "Maybe Mew will know what to do. Where is she anyway?"

Cressalia glanced around, "I wonder too. This isn't like her to be late."

Just then, a pink cat-like creature appeared next to them, floating in mid-air, "Hello."

"It's about time." Entei snarled.

Cressalia rolled her eyes, "I made a plan that I think might could work. Would you like to hear?"

Mew nodded her head while Entei only scowled.

"I thought that maybe me and Mew should go ahead, since we have the ability to become invisible. In case things become sour, Entei can provide as a back-up." She turned to Entei, "That's when you'll be allowed to scorch the Château with massive hellfire and destruction, but only after we have escaped. If we don't come back in... Let us say, thirty minutes, Entei, you must go in there and find us. If we're clearly in trouble, you know what to do."

Entei actually seemed on-board with the idea, "Right."

"That sounds great." Mew added.

Cressalia nodded, "Good. Let's go."

The two psychic pokémon disappeared, while Entei stood guard in a cluster of bushes. He looked at the sun barely shining through the canopy of trees and began to track how long Mew and Cressalia were gone.

"Be careful." He said quietly under his breath.


Cressalia and Mew quietly crept along the deserted halls of the Old Château while completely invisible. There appeared to be no one around at the moment, proving to be a lucky break for the two. They silently floated to the top floor and entered a door that led into a long hall. Many doors lined the left wall.

Cressalia heard a gulp from Mew, "Cressalia, I have a bad feeling about this. I sense a great power."

Cressalia scrunched her nose, even though Mew could not see it, "We just have to see what is going on, then we'll leave."

They continued on, using their psychic-powers to teleport into the various rooms. There was nothing in each room that they teleported into, except for some old furniture and various other decorations. When they came to the final room, Mew stopped Cressalia.

"We can't," She said gently, "He's behind that door. He catches us, we're doomed."

"He can't see us, Mew," Cressalia assured, "Our psychic powers completely distort our image and make it impossible for anyone to see us. You should know that."

"A creature strong enough to kill Arceus will be strong enough to see through our disguise."

Cressalia ignored her and silently teleported into the room. Mew had no choice but to follow the lunar pokémon. Finally, they had found a room that was occupied. Laying on an old, worn-out bed was a creature with a long, serpentine body, complemented by various animalistic parts, creating the most grotesque, chimerical creature that Mew and Cressalia had ever seen. He appeared to be looking into a screen produced by magic, currently playing something that Cressalia and Mew could not see. A Gastly and a Haunter were at his side, looking quite reluctant and scared.

Mew and Cressalia were mere feet away from the oddity of a creature when said creature spoke to the two ghost pokémon at his side.

"So, it looks as though my old friends Giratina and Luna have finally had a so-called child," Discord began, "Hmm... What an interesting way to make a child of their own."

"You said it!" Haunter agreed.

"Very interesting!" Gastly added.

"Once the egg hatches though," The chaotic creature began, "They will most likely love whatever comes out of that egg... It gives me a wondrous idea..."

"Oh! Tell us about it!" Haunter pleaded.

"Yeah!" Gastly added.

Why ever are they acting as his slave? Mew's telepathy spoke in Cressalia's mind.

Brainwashing, perhaps? Cressalia answered.

I sense no brainwashing. I can, however, sense that those poor ghost pokémon are frightened out of their wits and forced to obey him.

"Nah, I'll tell you later." Discord broke through Cressalia and Mew's telepathic conversation. He stood up from the bed. What he did next caused both Mew and Cressalia's heart to stop. He looked directly at them and started to move towards them.

Does... Does he see us? Mew asked.

It's impossible! Cressalia replied, Our psychic power is much too strong!

"But before I can disclose my plan," Continued Discord. This time, he was clearly glaring right at the two psychic pokémon, "I must rid of these naughty little eavesdroppers, Cressalia and Mew."

"RUN!" Cressalia screamed, her fear causing her to be visible. They both teleported out of the room and back into the hall where they sped back towards the exit at the speed of sound. They caught glances of Gastly and Haunter trying to attack them, but they were much too fast. They broke through the front doors and zoomed back into the forest, where Entei was still waiting for them.

"Entei!" Mew shouted, "Burn!"

Entei didn't hesitate. A ball of fire appeared in his mouth before he fired it off at the ground. A wall of fire exploded into existence, blocking them off from the Château as they quickly made their escape into the woods.


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