I'm glad to see people reviewing/favoriting/following! Thanks for sticking with the story so far!

Also, to xXWingedpawsXx: The mane six may come in later. I haven't decided if I want to give them a role in the story or not.

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"I don't understand!" Luna yelled, "What's going on?!"

Giratina continued to crash through the trees, refusing to answer Luna's question. He came back out into the clearing of Lake Verity. Just as he was about to make a portal back into the Distortion World, the beings of time and space appeared before him, stopping him dead in his tracks.

"Giratina, you do not understand," Dialga began, "We're not even sure if he's going to attack at all!"

"Who else would he attack if it isn't us?!" Giratina shot back.

"It's going to take him a very long time to recooperate after being defeated and practically losing all of his powers," Palkia replied, "He may be making plans for revenge, but he is of no danger until he puts that plan in to action."

"And when do you think he'll be doing so?" Giratina bared his teeth.

Dialga and Palkia exchanged glances.

"That, we unfortunately do not know," Dialga began again, "If my powers were working correctly, I could put an estimate on when Discord would decide to attack. However, I can not look into the future as I once could. I can only catch glimpses of it during dreams and random visions."

"Even then, they don't explain much." Palkia added.

Giratina seemed to relax, but almost immediately tensed up again, "Then I'm taking precautions. I am not letting him harm my loved ones as he did with Arceus. Therefore, we are staying in the Distortion World until this entire thing blows over."

"What?!" Shaymin objecting, "But you can't stay in the Distortion World forever! I'll never see you guys again!"

Luna hopped off Giratina's back, giving him a deadly-serious glare, "But what if I wish not to stay in the Distortion World?"

"Then I guess you are out of luck." Giratina shot back, picking Luna up and holding her tail in his mouth. He also picked up the egg and started towards the lake.

"You can't hide all your life, Giratina." Dialga stated.

"Watch me." Giratina shot back.

"You've stayed in the Distortion World for almost all your life and haven't come out until just recently," Palkia began, "Because of that, things have changed for the better for all of us."

Giratina closed himself off from his nephews and continued to the lake while still holding Luna's tail in his mouth. She had stopped struggling and was now simply staring at Giratina angrily.

Dialga seemed to roll his eyes, "If that's how you wish to take this, Giratina, then so be it."

"We can't stop you if you wish to hide from your fears." Palkia added.

Without another word, the brothers of time and space disappeared. Giratina made his own portal in the surface of Lake Verity and was about to jump into it. However, little Shaymin stopped him by standing in his path.

"You can't just run away from your fears, Giratina!" She growled, "You have to face them! Why are you so scared of Discard... Disco... Whatever his name is anyway?"

"I'm not scared of him specifically," Giratina replied, "I'm scared of what he could do to the ones I love if I don't protect them. I'm not taking that risk, which means the both of you are coming with me." He then picked up Shaymin and continued on his way.

"I find this very juvenile and cowardly of you, Giratina." Luna sighed, still hanging upside-down against her will.

"Call it what you wish, but I'm taking the safe way out." The renegade replied. He spread his great wings and jumped into the portal which he had created in the surface of Lake Verity. He changed into his origin form, still carrying Luna in his mouth and Shaymin and the egg on his back.

"I guess I can see why Giratina's acting like a fraidy-cat." Shaymin stated quietly. She pawed at the back of Giratina's long neck, "You're afraid that someone you love will end up like Arceus, aren't you?"

Giratina didn't answer and landed on a small, floating island. He allowed Luna and Shaymin off his back and gently placed the egg on a soft patch of grass.

"We'll be just fine here," Giratina said, "It's not that much different from the normal world."

"Oh yeah suuuure..." Shaymin quipped sarcastically.

"You'll thank me when Discord regains his powers," Growled Giratina, "And comes after us. No one but me can create portals to and from the Distortion World."

Luna sat down next to the egg, "This still seems like a cowardly way out."

Giratina ignored her and went to check on the Distortion World's various areas, making sure everything was running properly.

Shaymin gently put her ear to the side of the egg, "Luna, I hear a little heartbeat!"

"You do?" Luna asked. She put her ear to the egg ad well, "Why, I hear movement!"

"Do you think it's going to hatch?"

"Already? It's barely been twenty-four hours since we received the egg!"

The egg jolted from the inside, causing it to tilt over and almost fall on Shaymin.

"Well, it is half Giratina, after all!" The gratitude pokémon squeaked.

They backed up from the egg, giving it enough space to shake out. Suddenly, a small, gray unicorn horn jammed through the egg shell and shattered a hole in it. The creature inside retracted immediately, seeming scared of the breakable surface. Luna approached the egg cautiously, peeking in to see what was inside. Slowly, something came out of the shadow of the egg, revealing itself.

A tiny, gray filly stared up at Luna with dark red eyes. The young foal had a long black mane that was damp with egg yolk. As she broke through the egg shell, she flopped on the soft grass, revealing the rest of her body. Though she had a horn, she also had ruffled black wings, tipped very slightly with red, reminding Luna of Giratina's wings.

"Wow!" Shaymin exclaimed, "It's a Lunatina! Er... Giraluna!"

By that time, Giratina returned to see what all the fuss was about. He saw the filly that had just emerged from the egg and blushed brightly through the golden plates on his face.

"Isn't she beautiful, Giratina?" Luna asked with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"She's a... Pony." Giratina stated blankly.

Luna glared at him, "And what's wrong with that?"

"Nothing of course! It's just that... I expected for the creature that came out to have some trace of my appearance..."

"Well, she has gray fur," Shaymin replied, "And black wings. And red eyes."

Luna picked up the small filly in her forelegs. She made a towel appear and wiped her free of the egg yolk before wrapping her up in a different towel, "She needs a name."

"How about Shaymin Jr.?" Shaymin inquired, giving a sleazy grin.

"How about not?" Giratina shot back.

"How about..." Luna's blue eyes stared into the little filly's red ones, "Selena."

Giratina and Shaymin looked at her.

"Why Selena?" Shaymin asked.

"In some different pony kingdoms, I go by Selena instead of Luna," Luna explained, "Since the ancient spirit who first created the moon is known as Selena."

Giratina contemplated it as he leaned over and looked at the filly. She did not seem afraid of him, rather she was giggling and reaching her hooves up towards him.

"Selena..." Giratina repeated. He decided to pull out some of that sappy-love junk Mesprit advised him about, "A beautiful name for a beautiful creature."

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"You... You me to rub your feet?"

"Yes... Is that a problem?"

"I don't have hands! Haunter is the one with hands!"

"He's busy fixing me a soda. Now rub!"

Gastly stared in dismay at the pair of mismatched feet dangling over the torn mattress. He gulped and tried to manipulate the gas flowing around him to rub the creature's feet, but it didn't work out so well.

"Do you not understand the definition of 'rubbing one's feet'?" Discord asked the gas pokémon, baring his teeth as he did.

"I do!" Gastly replied, his gaseous body shaking, "But you don't understand, Master Discord, I am only gas! I can't do many physical things!"

Discord waved his paw dismissively, "Fine then. Go get one of the Haunters to do the job."

Gastly bowed timidly before he dissolved into thin-air. This left Discord to think about what to do now.

"I wonder what Grippy-tuna and his crater-faced-moon-horse girlfriend is doing..." He wondered aloud. He then pulled up a screen made by magic, viewing the serene sight of Lake Verity. The draconequus frowned, seeing that the lake was quiet with no sign of Luna or Giratina anywhere.

Instead, Discord pulled up an image of the Distortion World. Almost immediately, he found Giratina, Luna, and Shaymin gathered around something. He forced the image to zoom in on them, discovering Luna holding a baby filly in her arms. Giratina seemed to be blushing brightly through his golden plates while Shaymin jumped around and squealed with delight. The gray filly in Luna's arms was now chewing affectionately on the night princess' mane of stars, looking innocent and adorable as ever. In the background was a broken egg shell laying strewn about and floating away in the Distortion World's senseless gravity.

Discord's bushy eyebrows shot up, noticing how they already seemed attached to the filly. He turned the sound up so he could hear what was going on.

"Then so be it," Luna said proudly, "Her name shall be Selena!"

Giratina seemed to be smiling with pride while Shaymin giggled, tickling Selena with her twitchy rodent nose.

A wicked smile twisted its way on to Discord's face. An idea had come to him on how to finally get revenge on Giratina and his happy family.

But the family wouldn't be happy for long.