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Luna and Thief Ch: 3 Brad The Lucario Trainer!

"There it is!" Whatever the feeling it swept over them all and made them shine with the sense of accomplishment. Pewter City, the sign again and again by the trainer, as if he was certain it wasn't real. "We made it everyone!" From the sounds a small sneeze came into the air, it was from Thief. He pawed at his nose and shook his head left and right. "Do you have a cold?" Luna asked looking at him with curious eyes. "Uh yeah. I guess so." Thief replied rubbing his nose again. Luna couldn't explain it she slept away from the group last night but was around the campfire in the morning. I guess I woke up in the middle of the night and went to the fire. She was dry and warm Thief on the other hand was still wet and shivering. Maybe he slept in a small dip? The rain-water would've collected inside. She was almost sure that's what had happened. The sneezing came up again, the trainer turned to Thief and picked him up. "You're soaked." Thief sneezed again and shook his head. "Maybe I'll just bring you to the Pokemon Center I bet you've got a cold." He turned to meet the face of an odd old man dressed in ragged dirty clothing. "JEAZ!" The trainer jumped back. "You there!" The old man called out. "What do you?" "You're Pokemon! I am a traveling identifier, I know the nicknames of all Pokemon!" "...." Silence. "Don't believe me?" The old figure crossed his arms. "No." He blatantly replied a little monotone and annoyed. "You're one of those scam guys who's going to do something for me than ask for cash." "Of course not!" The man exclaimed. "I am simply an old man who has a talent with the names of Pokemon." The trainer was going to speak once more. "You're Griffin for one." That shut the trainer up. "You're Growlithe is Thief. Your Mightyena is Bandit." "Have you been following me?" Griffin asked, his arms crossed now. "That Espeon is Moonlight. You're Pikachu and Marill... You haven't nicknamed... Yet they have names regardless!" "Riiiiight." Griffin turned to leave spotting out for a PokeCenter. "By their personalities, I'd say you're Pikachu's name is.... Scarf! "Pika?" Translation. "What? ..." Griffin turned. "I am perfectly capable of nicknaming my own Pokémon thank you." "Fine yet you're Vulpix...." "What about her?" "She has been with a trainer before, a few actually!" "Even I know that!" "Her name .......... Is Luna!" Thief stared at the old man and knew he wasn't lying. Luna stared too after reading his lips He is for real she thought. "Alright thanks.... Bye now!" "Wait." "Oh dear god..." Griffin turned again. "What?" "That Vulpix isn't normal you should get rid of it soon." It wasn't Griffin who spoke, but Thief. By reaction he bared his teeth and roared at the old man that got him going. Griffin looked at Thief than back to the man who was already gone.

"That was a little disturbing..." Griffin blew it off and walked into Pewter City, it was sunset by the time they actually got to Pewter. Inside the center he returned most of the group except Luna who swatted the Pokéball away. Griffin tried again and got the same result from her. "Don't like Pokeballs huh?" Luna could read lips a little she got talented at that over her life. "Fine." "Welcome to the Pokémon Center, I'm Nurse Joy." "Hi, I was just wondering if I could recover my Pokémon." "Of course." She took the tray of Pokéballs and Luna from Griffin. "It may take a while though, as you can see we have a lot of people in this evening." "That's fine in fact I was going to check in at the market and pick up some supplies." "Don't worry, your Pokémon will be safe here."

"Thank you." Griffin left the center.

Inside Luna waited pawing at her swaying tails in boredom. I haven't been inside a Pokémon Center in a long time. The room was big but warm she went up to Thief's Pokéball and opened it. He came out. "Oh Luna. For a minute I thought Griffin let me out." "I'm so bored waiting in here." Luna spoke staring at him. "I also get kinda... Nervous." "Oh well I guess we can talk a while." Thief sneezed shortly after. "You still have a cold?" "Yeah... Who ever heard of a fire Pokémon having a cold anyways?" Luna giggled. "I know I haven't." Shortly after she stared down at her paws. "......." Silence. "I had a dream last night." Thief lied down and curled up. Luna felt the blood slowly rush to her head. "You were in it." "Really?" Thief was yawning, it didn't seem like he was all too interested. "You've been yawning and trudging along all day." Thief's eyes perked open. "I had a rough night." He yawned again, a long one. "I hope you don't mind if I take a nap."

"Oh... Okay." Luna replied. Some noises of the outside world came from the nearby doorway. Bored Luna lied down and decided to listen to them.

"You lot carry sushi rice?" Griffin asked the cashier after scouring the small market for a while. "Uh yeah third aisle closest to the entrance." Always the one spot I never look! "Thanks." He smiled sheepishly feeling like a total idiot. In the aisle Griffin pulled out a few small bags of rice along with different sets of seasonings and some paper bowls. Along the wall of the shop were the frozen goods they kept behind the glass doors, Griffin debated whether or not to pick something up. Team motivation! Come on pick up some actual meat, they're all bound to love it! It was all Griffin needed to tell himself before he took out a few decent grams of meat. Passing to the cashier's he made an unexpected run-in to a small shadow. "Please refrain from keeping your Pokémon out sir!" Griffin was on the ground his grocery bags had hit the ground too. He looked up only to look at a slender firm Pokémon. "A Lucario?" The trainer was in the midst of apologizing to the cashier before coming over to Griffin. "I'm so sorry." He said, helping Griffin with his bags. "It's okay, I'm fine." Griffin replied standing up with his groceries in hand. "Are you a trainer?" "Uh yes. I'm staying at the Pokémon Center tonight the gym is closed here today." Out of all that time Griffin didn't even decide to check out the gym. "Well that's good to know! I'm Griffin." He held his hand out to greet him, the trainer shook his hand. "Name's Brad." "Sorry to interrupt, are you paying for all that?" The cashier chimed in. "Right sorry!" Griff paid the price tag, 357 Poké. Leaving the market both Brad and Griffin left together. "Yeah so I'm from Sinnoh." Brad explained. "This is my Lucario Aura." The Pokémon chimed in as Brad started to chuckle. "The craziest thing is that my Pokédex tells me I have a female Lucario." Griffin was impressed. "That gender is rare for them." He replied, a little shocked about it. "Yep. I came to Kanto to compete in the league, I hope to become a famous chef though." Brad stopped for a second, Looking at Griffins black and gray bag. "Is that..." Brad looked closer Griffin finally realizing his bag was open. "A field stove kit?" "Uh Yeah it is." "Whoa, those cost a fortune!" Brad's eyes lit up. This is starting to get a little awkward. "I'd buy one... It's just." Brad looked to Aura who had this look to her, Griffin couldn't explain it. "I can't cook at all..." This is the same guy who just moments ago said he wanted to be a chef!? "I tend to cook a lot." Griffin looked up the Pokémon Center stood in front of them, and behind them was a passing road with its street-lamps brimming with light. "In fact once we get inside I was going to start cooking dinner, would you like to join?" Aura looked at Griffin as if he was an angel, he almost felt inclined to blush from it. Brad looked at Aura then sunk his head down for a second before jolting back up. "We'd love to!"

"There's your Pokémon." Nurse Joy handed over Griffins entire team, for whatever reason Thief was out of his Pokéball along with Luna. "And you're sure you don't mind me doing some cooking in here?" "Just don't burn the Pokémon Center down, that and lights out by eleven please." Griffin nodded and looked around. Earlier that evening the place was oddly full now it was simply silent with only Griffin and Brad in the foyer. Griff set up his small set of stoves, four in total that could be attached together to have a grill in the middle. It was the perfect set he had made and it almost let him cook everything he wanted to make out in the field. It ran on Propane though which was the pricy downfall of it, but it really didn't weigh much and it was easy to set up and take apart. Setting the entire stove-set up Griffin began boiling some water for rice and decided between frying and grilling the meat he selected. Brad stared deeply in the background, as if studying in curiosity where he goes wrong in his cooking. After an hour had passed, Griffins watch told him it was nine-thirty, by then most of the food was already done. He let out all of his Pokémon into the foyer and then noticed that Brad hadn't yet. "Well I don't cook Pokéfood I decide to actually make food for everyone." Brad looked a little puzzled. "Is that even healthy for them?" That is a pretty valid point. Griffin looked around already realizing that he had passed some Oniguri around. He noticed that Luna shared half of hers with Thief it was touching for him to know that they were already close. "I'd say it's very healthy." Brad seemed to mutter something along the lines of 'Not for your checkbook' in remark before standing with a smile. "You're a real oddball trainer Griff." Griffin chuckled.

"I get that a lot."

"You really don't need to half yours Luna." Thief said almost pushing the rice ball away. "Well the trainer is a few short I don't want you to be hungry." Luna replied she could feel that something was upsetting him and simply prayed it wasn't because of her. Thief stared long into Luna's eyes, she almost felt like blushing. It still confused her why she felt so hot when she was near him. He sighed and bit into the food. "Alright... Thank you." He spoke with a mouthful swallowing shortly after. "Our trainer's name is Griffin." "Griffin?" Luna never really did catch onto saying his name it wasn't that she didn't know, just that it felt too early to start with that. She stared off to the other trainer and the bipedal jackal; she had never seen anything like it before. The Pokémon sat nibbling away happily at its own food in the corner of the Center with its trainer, Griffin sat nearby. Bandit overlooked him with sharp eyes, Luna knew that she wasn't all too trusting of the new fellow. Being amazed at the wonder that Luna had felt, the very thought that she was actually considering this peaceful made her happy. The thoughts stayed with her as she ate in silence with everyone; she didn't feel very much alone anymore. Suddenly Thief perked up. Griffin was talking about something and it took Luna a while of reading his lips to understand; He was considering of letting Brad travel with them. "You only have one Pokémon and you are planning on competing in the league?" That came shortly after they decided to travel together, after-all they were both headed in the same direction. "Yeah." Brad replied. "Me and Aura are going to be one of the first people to ever win a league with only one Pokémon!" That's one crazy dream. "I say go big or go home, I'm hoping to learn about Pokémon in my travels and a lot about culinary too!" "What do you cook?" "... Well I am really good at some baking, like muffins and brownies and such... But actual meals I always ruin." Brad held a figure under his chin. He actually has to think in depth about this!?_Griffin was beginning to wonder if this guy was for real. "Curfew time." Nurse Joy called from behind a counter Griffin took that as the sign that they had to get to bed. He set up his small sleeping bag, most of his Pokémon gathered around him, except for Bandit who had the nerve to jump up on one of the couches in the Center. Luna also slept away from the group for the night. "Bandit!" Griffin harshly whispered but his Mightyena simply rolled away from him and decided to sleep there for the night. _Tomorrow morning I'm going to challenge the Pewter Cities gym leader Brock!