Living in the Shadows

CHAPTER 4 POINTS OF VIEW

*Zoroark and Zorua had just left the power plant, and this is before they met up with Darkrai at the waterfall.*

(Zorua)

"Can I come out now?" I asked for the hundredth time.

"No!" Zorro yelled for the hundredth time.

I was still in his mane, being bounced around as he ran this way and that way. We still haven't caught up to the King yet. I don't think my brother even knows where he is or where we're going.

"Can I come out, now?"

"NO!" Suddenly he jerked to the right.

We must have run into more trouble if he's dodging somebody's attacks, I thought as he jumped high in the air. I can tell what's going on even if I can't see; I've had a lot of practice.

Zorro must not have been able to dodge someone's attack 'cause we were now rolling into a tree. I was fine but my brother, however. "Jeez!" he exclaimed as he shook his head. "What is it with all these trees?!"

"What? What's wrong with the trees?" I said as I stuck my head out of his mane.

"Zorua! Get back in there!" My brother shouted. He was tied to a tree with the forest's vines.

"Na-uh!" I shook my head as I jumped out. "Your mane's a mess, it's hard to breathe in there! And would it kill you to run a brush through it!"

"Behind you!"

I jumped and transformed into that Luxray we saw at the power plant to face whatever was going to attack us. When I saw it was only Trevenant and some Phantump I hadn't met before, I changed back.

"It's OK, Zorro," I told him. "They're not enemies."

"Really? Could've fooled me." He indicated the vines.

"Sorry about that, kid," Trevenant said as he used his powers to untie my brother. "But I had to make sure you weren't still running wild in that crazed state."

"I broke that machine, Mr. Treventant," I told him. "None of the Dark-types are running wild and crazy. Not even the King."

"Speaking of which," Zorro said as he dusted himself off. "You haven't seen him around here, have you?"

"Not in the last eleven years, no," Trevenant replied as he shook his head. The Phantump also shook their heads.

"Come again?" Zorro asked in confusion.

"Long story, I'll tell you later," I answered. To Trevenant I asked; "Can you help us find him, please?"

"No problem," he said as he placed his hand on a nearby tree and his eye began to glow. After one more thunderbolt and lightning flash, it started to rain.

"Now I'm definitely not going back into your mane," I told Zorro as I tried to shake the water off my fur.

"What not? You'll stay dry."

"Your mane stinks when it gets wet!"

"It does not!" He objected indignantly.

"It does too!"

"Does not!"  

"Does too!"

"Not!"

"Too!"

Just then another bolt of lightning struck the forest floor right next to me. I yelped and jumped into my brother's mane to avoid getting zapped again.

"I thought you said my mane stank when it's wet," he commented somewhat condescendingly.