Chapter 10 A secret in the forest

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Denny's P.O.V.

The sun was up and Denny was on the beach sitting on a rock by the water's edge, lost in thought. 'My dream, don't lose sight of what's important. But why would I? Does she mean don't go after Darle? Because that kind of is important to me'
"Hey Denny!" Charlie called "Are you trying to catch a Magicarp?" Denny sat up at the Jolteon's approach. "No their so stupid you don't even have to catch them anyway." Charlie laughed "Haha, yeah you got that right" Shawn came running eagerly towards them."Hey Denny let's battle practice! Charlie says we're at that age where it's time to evolve"
"Battle practice!" Denny felt excited for it.
"But if I want to evolve we have to go to the ice mountains" Charlie looked puzzled. "I thought you were gonna say you need to find a water stone." Denny met his purple gaze "What makes you think I want to be a Vaporeon?"He questions the Jolteon. Charlie just shrugged then smiled. "Well, I think It's obvious why, it's because you're always near the water and you love to swim." Shawn nodded "You know he's kinda right Denny"
Denny shook his head. "I want to live in the ice mountains through."
"So go live in the ice mountains, a Vaporeon can handle the cold." Denny felt confused. "Does a Vaporeon really suit me? I always imagined being a Glaceon... Hmmm I need time to think about it." Charlie dipped his head in understanding "Take your time kid, just make sure you choose right, you don't want to live with regret for the rest of your life." Then he padded away. "Hey Charlie?" Shawn called "where are you going?"
"Hunting he replied, you guys can practice fighting, if you plan to beat Darle one day better start now" Shawn crouched down ready to get into a battle stance. "Are you ready Denny?" Denny jumped down from his rock feeling pretty eager about it. "Ready!" Shawn jumped at Denny and used a swift it hit him. "Oww!" Then Denny charged at Shawn with quick attack.
Shawn fell on the grass, then got back up "Nice one" Denny paused his ears pricking up, as he heard a weird sound coming from the forest that lay close to the beach where they were. "did you hear that?" Shawn looked confused "Hear what?" Denny shrugged. "Hmm sounds like Someone laughing. let's go check it out." Shawn looked a bit nervous. "What if it's something dangerous?"
"Like what?" Denny asked. Shawn sighed. "Oh, ok fine we'll go see what it is, then we can get back to practice after?" Denny nodded then led the way across the sandy area and towards trees and sniffed around. "It came from this way" he moved forward through the forest with Shawn right behind him. Denny froze. "I smell Rattata!" His belly growled at the smell and Shawn looked happy himself. "Food!, let's get it, Charlie would be happy." Denny started creeping slowly towards it, then he saw it, a golden Rattata."
Denny felt shocked seeing it. "Oh, Shawn we found a good one." He licked his lips at the sweet smell. 'I wonder if a shiny one tastes better?
Oh I wish Darle could see me kill a precious shiny!' Shawn slowly crept forward. "OK, I'll go this way in case it's too fast for your catch, we don't want to lose this one." Denny waited until Shawn got into place. 'Here I go, I'm coming for you shiny! Denny crept up until he was close enough then he pounced at it and used a quick attack, the Rattata looked terrified as Denny used to bite and finished it off with a swift attack.
Shawn lifted his head. "Good catch Denny! now kill it so we can take it back home."
Denny smiled. "Will do." But just as Denny bent down to take it's life he heard that sound again "Tea hehe." Denny looked up. "It's that sound again." Shawn backed away into the bushes hiding. "Tea hehehe!"  Denny felt frustrated.
"Shawn you scaredy-Delcatty it's just Somemon laughing." Shawn ducked down even lower. 'Hmm, what's he hiding from? Then Denny turned around to see a pink Celebi hovering there. "Whoa, where did you come from? So you're that weird sound I was hearing." He said.
"Tea hehe! I sure am." She replied with a smile. "Denny took a closer look at her. "You must be a mythical Pokemon." She smiled once more. "Yes I am tea hehe" Denny sat down. "Well, I'm kinda in the middle of something so if you don't mind-" she cut him off. "I live here, in this forest we shinies are hiding from Darle."
Denny tilted his head at her. "Oh, yeah that's nice anyway I'm hungry."
"Which is why I'm here to stop you from hurting this Rattata, you can't kill him." Denny was now starting to feel very annoyed by this Celebi. "Why not? It's nature I gotta eat too you know."
She laughed again. "Tea Hehehehe!"
"ERRR can you stop that? it's getting kind of annoying!" Denny snapped.
She laughed even harder. "Tea hehehe!" Denny growled, "What is so funny anyway?"
"You silly' you know it's wrong to kill a shiny right?" Denny couldn't believe what he was hearing. "So you're saying that I can't kill a shiny anywhere even if it's for good reason, like hunting?"
"Tea hehe yea, now you know so I'm gonna need you to leave now. We shinies got to go hunting too" Denny felt more confused "But you're a Celebi don't you just eat berries and stuff like that?" She laughed again. "Tea hehehehe!"
Denny growled again. "UGGG!! seriously that is very irritating cut it out!" He demanded.
"Tea hehe! I'm not going hunting silly the other shiny Pokemon are." Denny stood up and shot her with a glare. "And what if I say that you're not allowed to hunt regular Pokemon?"
"Tea hehehe! your funny little Eevee it's always okay to hunt regular Pokemon because they're just not special like us." Denny got furious and snapped the Rattan's neck. *crack* She froze her eyes growing wide with shock.
"Oh no, I'm sorry silly head I guess he was a freak of nature so I had to kill him," he said in a sarcastic tone.
She gasped in shock. "Oh no, oh no, oh no, you killed him, you actually did it!" she was flying around in a Panic circle. "Oh, this is terrible!"
Denny grumbled. "So what? Pokemon die every day so other mons like me can live" She glared at him. "Oh, so now you finally stop laughing?" he criticized as her face turned serious.
"You just killed a shiny.. One of Arceus's great blessings in life, and you killed him."
Denny yelled, "I'm special too you know!" She frowned."No, you're not sorry but great sin comes with great price." Then she used magical leaf and took Denny by surprise and threw him down, he got back up. "What! you're gonna kill me now? just because I hunted a precious shiny?"
She flew up to him. "I don't like to use the word kill, but you must pay for your crime, you are also prey to some mons I'll just take you back to camp." Denny was getting angrier. "That's it! I had enough of this bullshit! your life doesn't value any more than mine does!" She laughed again. "Tea hehe, my life has way more value than yours silly." Shawn came running out of his hiding place. "That's not true! We are just as important as anyone!" Then he attacked the Celebi and used bite she gasped in shock and then Denny and Shawn both pinned her down and started using a combo of different moves until she fainted.
Shawn sighed "There that's that, now let's take our prey and go." Denny hesitated. "What do we do with her?" Shawn glanced at the shiny Celebi. "Just leave her, she will get back up in a couple of hours." Denny took another glance at her. "How happy do you think Charlie would be if we took her home for supper?"
Shawn looked surprised by the question. "What? oh no we better not, she's a mythical Let's just leave her." Denny sighed. "Oh, all right, why don't you take the Rattata back, I'm just gonna make sure I put her somewhere safe for when she wakes up." Shawn nodded. "Sounds good." Then he picked up the shiny Rattata. "See you at home," he mumbled with the Rattata in his mouth then took off towards home.
Denny glared at the Celebi. "I'm sorry silly but it's time to end you because I think you're a freak of nature and you're not worthy enough to live."
Feeling lots of hate inside, Denny dug his claws into her neck then sliced it across killing her watching as the blood poured out of the open wound and onto the forest floor, then he dug a hole and threw her in it and buried her.
"There now you will never see the light of another day again."

***

Denny finally got home. "There he is!"
He heard Shawn call. Charlie looked at Denny. "Shawn told me what happened, don't worry about what that Celebi said, there is no law like that." Denny nodded, "She's just a typical shiny to think like that" Shawn gave Denny a look. "Not all shiny Pokemon are like that."
Denny didn't respond to that and Charlie got up. "I caught a Pidgeotto, it was easy because I'm an electric type, I just zap them down, here we can share." Denny dug in feeling grateful to eat finally." When he finished he licked the blood off his lips and looked at Shawn "Now that it's getting late let's battle so you can evolve into an Umbreon." Shawn jumped excitedly. "I'm all for that, let's go!" He ran outside the den and Denny followed after him. Shawn was crouched down.
"You ready Denny?" Denny nodded his head. "Yeah let's do this"
"All right." Shawn jumped at him and tried to use tackle but Denny dodged it and then used quick attack. They battled until the moon was at its fullest. "Huff, huff" Shawn was panting.
"Evolving is hard, why is it taking so long?"  Denny sighed. "We're making good progress we're both getting stronger, I think we should keep going until you change form."
Shawn looked at the trees. "Do you think that shiny Celebi will come looking for us?, after killing that Rattata?"
Denny laughed. "Umm no, you're not actually scared of her are you?" Shawn shook his head. "I'm just thinking about how she said that there are more shinies in that forest."
"So what?" Denny asked feeling frustrated that Shawn looked worried. "Maybe we made a mistake, I don't think they are forgiving."
"Well, neither am I!" Denny snapped.
"Look Shawn you're getting all worked up for nothing, You're gonna be a dark type soon anyway you'll have the advantage of that Celebi"
Shawn sighed. "you're right maybe I am thinking too much about it" Denny jumped at Shawn with another attack but Shawn avoided it and used bite on Denny, then he started to glow Denny stopped. "Good job Shawn we did it!" Shawn's body glowed white and he got taller and changed shape then the brightness cleared away and standing in front of Denny was now an Umbreon. Shawn got happy. "Look at me! we did it!" He ran around in a happy circle his yellow rings glowing. "Oh, I wish Fredrick and Scarlet could see me now." Denny sat down. "Umm... yeah, me too." Shawn paused and looked at Denny. "Don't worry Denny you will evolve next." Denny glared at Shawn "I'm not ready, I don't know what I want to be yet." He grumbled Shawn sat down beside him. "You miss them don't you?" He growled.
"Yeah, but do they miss us? Or are they too damn good for us!" Shawn looked shocked. "Denny! how could you say that? What's gotten into you?" Denny immediately felt bad he had to admit to himself he was kinda worried. 'What if Fredrick and Scarlet grow attached?... what if they wake up one day and side with Darle?
Then he had to shake his head to clear it.
'No... they would never... especially not Fredrick.
He glanced at his paw for a bit, then he let out a sigh. "I'm sorry, it's just that shiny Celebi got to me today" Shawn glanced at him. "Never doubt your siblings, we're a team no matter what happens, That's why you and I must take down Darle."
"Uggg Darle!" Denny growled "Don't even get me started on that I want nothing more but to see that disgrace of a Pokemon dead!" Shawn let out a tired yawn. *yawn*
"Well, we should head back it's late." Denny got up and padded back for the den with his brother right behind him.

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