chapter 2

Chapter 2: Misguidance

Author's Note: Hello everyone, hope you're enjoying my little tale so far. Prepare to meet a new character coming in this chapter! For a recap of last chapter, Dusk was expecting the usual day of hated and constant fear from others, only that he got the exact opposite when meeting Ray; A fan of the Ice Houndoom, of course this kid's gotta go home and Dusk...

Morning...

Dawn came over the forest that morning as beautiful as ever. The sun was seen coming over the horizon just in time to light up the sky in charming shades of orange and pink. Dusk woke up noticing the light begin to magnify in brightness. He stood onto his four paws before stretching out his long body and yawning showing his blade like fangs, he realized how good of a sleep he had compared to normal nights. The hound looked over to his new buddy Ray who was still asleep, he didn't know how a kid like him slept past sunrise, then again, Dusk surely wasn't normal himself so he didn't mind it.

"His parents are probably out looking for him, it would be better to get him back as soon as possible..." Thought Dusk as he walked over to the napping fox, proceeding to nudge him with a paw shaking him a bit.

"Rise and shine kid." Said Dusk as Ray yawned realizing his sleep has been disturbed...

"Five more minutes..." Replied the kid banality before Dusk shook him again.

"You can sleep when we get you back home."

With that the two were on their way and it wasn't long until they felt the grass under them get thinner and saw the trees grow less in number. Dusk looked around as they entered the more mountainous terrain, something about it just felt really familiar to Dusk although he couldn't put a paw on it. Ray on the other hand didn't really want to leave his Houndoom friend this quickly even after spending a whole night with him.

"I didn't know Vulpix's or Ninetales' lived around this area." Stated Dusk as he looked around the area.

"Oh, they don't." The Fox replied surprising Dusk once again with his strange lifestyle. He continued to say. "I'm the only one of my species around here."

Ray's voice was pretty much casual as if he didn't even care, Dusk concluded this meant that he was probably was adopted awhile ago, this place wasn't somewhere a fox would call territory anyway. Looking around at how much land and space there was here Dusk could tell they weren't alone, but whoever might have been watching weren't really considered a threat.

"Alright Ray, lead the way." Said Dusk to Ray being the only one who knew where to go. Ray yipped running forwards while Dusk would follow closely behind.

"I can't wait for you to meet my sister!"

Dusk paused for a moment making Ray stop in his tracks as well. "I think not. Let's just get you home, i'm sure you know how I am not much of a conversationalist." Dusk concluding walking towards the direction they were headed. Ray caught up to him.

"My sister is really nice and she's strong too! You remind a lot of her even you two HAVE to meet!" Ray exclaimed as Dusk shook his head, hoping his rambling would cease soon. Dusk was sorry to say, but he didn't really care for meeting his sister. Just one friend was enough and Ray could keep his sister to himself, not that he disliked girls or anything.

"Oh wait there it is!" The fox pointed up above a large cliff, how a kit managed to get to the ground from way up there was up to the imagination, but at this point Dusk wasn't really surprised by now.

"Guess we're climbing then." Dusk said wrapping his tail around Ray before scaling up the rocks, Ray was having the time of his young life as the wind blew through his hair and fur. Dusk could admit he was having a bit of fun too, this wide open space felt way more suitable than that in the forest.

Something else was also scaling the mountain pretty quickly moving so fast someone with normal eyes would only see a brown and white blur. It was stealthy too, Dusk was left completely in the dark about it until the pursuer made a careless mistake and let a rock crack under its powerful feet, a sound a Houndoom's horn could hear easily.

Without a second thought the Houndoom pounced and turned to unleash an Ice Beam attack towards his enemy, who actually dodged it with ease, leaving Dusk a little in shock, but at the same time excited. Of course, Ray being here on this steep climb wasn't the best idea.

"It dodged my Ice Beam." Dusk thought finally reaching the summit of the rocky cliff, now releasing Ray from his tail grip.

"This is it right here right?" Dusk said looking towards the large cavern right in front of them, it was dark for the most part but he didn't bother looking in their too deeply.

"Yeah! Thank you Dusk!" He yipped before urging him to come inside with him.

"Nah kid, I better get going. I don't intend on being a nuisance around here." Dusk said leaving even though he knew he liked it a little more over here.

"Wait! You will come back right!?" Ray called for Dusk who was already half way down the mountain and didn't bother to respond leaving the kit ears flat. He walked into the cave expecting to be met by his sister but she wasn't around.

"Sis?" Ray asked in the dark cave before he heard pawsteps come into the cave. "There you are Ray!" Said a feminine voice with an angry tone it seemed.

Ray flattened his ears again. "I-I'm sorry I was gone so long..." Ray apologize before he was tackled by his sister in a tight hug, the cave was too dark for you to actually see what she was, but she was surely a canine.

"I don't care Ray just do not scare me like that again, I did not trust when I saw you with that Houndoom."

"What do you mean!? He's a really cool guy, he even carried me way over here from the forest!" Ray announced for her as the female canine looked him over with bright blue eyes, her only visible feature at the moment.

She soon noticed that Ray had quite a few bruises on him. "What exactly happened to you out there?" She inquired concerned for his safety.

Ray told her everything from the moment he and Dusk met up until the present time. Sister was angry but at the same time a little intrigued by what she heard. She would make that tortoise pay even worse but overall she decided that the Houndoom was okay but she still wasn't so sure about him, not knowing what he was actually like up close.

This little fox kit, however, was determined to actually force the two to meet one way or the other. All he had to do was figure out how...

Meanwhile, Dusk made a harmless way throughout the forest once again to have the animals diss him and give him more hate. He dealt with it daily so it didn't really bother him, he just remembered that one friend he made, even if it was just a kit...

Few Days Have Passed...

Dusk had to admit, he had been expecting Ray to come back for quite a bit of time, but the more free time meant he would train more, he was a perfectionist, but he had his own reasons for wanting to be stronger.

Not for fame or glory, but to make up for everything...Plus, that creatures that pursued him and Ray the other day seemed to know how to handle itself too, whatever it was...

Somewhere close by Ray was running as fast as he could towards Dusk's place panting and with an extremely worried look on his face. Wouldn't be long before Dusk heard him coming with such an unusual pace and met him about half way.

"Something wrong?" Dusk asked tilting his head to the exhausted fox kit.

"Something happened...no time to explain...Gotta hurry!" Ray spoke between deep, maybe over exaggerated pants.

"Where to!?"

Ray later led Dusk into a canyon near the mountains, it was a large empty space with no Pokemon in sight. Emphasis on the 'empty space' part.

"Ray. There's nothing here, you see that right?" Dusk stated calm voice as Ray gave a childish giggle. Dusk wasn't sure if he should be angry or not, especially now that he was intrigued by what Ray found so amusing.

It didn't take long for that reason to show up as the two heard footsteps coming their way, the first thing that was noticed was piercing blue eyes. The figure came closer and closer until its form was clear, the only existent wolf Pokemon, a Lycanroc came into view.

The Lycanroc noticed Dusk in the distance as well... Once it became close enough to view it stopped running. It had a slender, majestic form and them eyes though! Them ocean blue diamond eyes though! (X3) It was near obvious that this Lycanroc was female, Dusk has never seen this kind of Pokemon before on this island, only but recently...

The two canines were face to face, giving a glare that buried into the other's eyes. The Lycanroc looked at Dusk before searching around for something, then she saw Ray having a huge smile.

"Ray, what is going on here? You told me there was an emergency" The Lycanroc asked looking at him as Dusk did the same.

"I wanted you to meet and now you have! Say hi to each other!" Ray announced putting extreme awkwardness into the situation.

The two dog's stared at each other not even knowing what to say, of course one obviously had more will to speak than the other.

"Well, uhm...hello. I'm Silver. Nice to meet you Dusk." She introduced as politely as possible with a small smile. Dusk wasn't so sure about her.

"You're the one who was trying to attack me a while ago." Dusk said at point blank making Ray pull his ears down his face.

"No no no, Dusk!" Ray screamed in his head not even knowing that Dusk didn't know how to speak to a girl. (Ray learned through his sister of course.)

"Look, sorry about that. I just wanted to protect my brother, then I saw that you were actually trying to do the same. It's over now right?"

Dusk was silent not knowing what to say to her or what to think. Ray was a kid so it wasn't too surprising by now he was naive enough to befriend a threatening Houndoom. But this Lycanroc, Silver, a fully grown adult. One with enough speed to dodge his attack and he didn't even know about her power...

It didn't take long for Silver to get irritated with his rudeness and she growled. "Can you not be so rude, i'm trying to be your friend."

"Pfft." Dusk said turning the other way away from her, obviously still holding that slight grudge but at the same time he couldn't help but get that feeling that Silver was actually okay, though he didn't want to admit it.

Silver gave him the same treatment, this is not what Ray had schemed, but only Dusk could make this friendship work. "You know, I thought you would be nice..." Silver said finally as Dusk fell completely silent.

Ray had to do something so he ran over to Silver and told her the little that he actually knew about Dusk. She gave a sigh. "Maybe I am forcing it...Sorry." Silver said still ignoring him.

Then Ray went over to talk to Dusk, of course he would be a bit tougher to get on his side. "Dusk, please just say something. My sister is really nice I swear." Ray whispered basically begging Dusk who still didn't say anything looking another direction.

The kit ran in front of the Houndoom, showing huge, liquid filled eyes like he was about to cry. Dusk could not even find a suitable reaction...his only buddy was now about to cry just over this, he sighed.

"I guess I was being selfish." Dusk replied near under his breath. "Sorry." He finished turning back around to face the Lycanroc named Silver.

She gave a sweet smile to him. "It's okay, let's just get over it." She said.

There was a moment of complete silence between the three. Since no one had anything to say, Dusk decided to walk forward past the two.

"Wait where are you going?" Asked Ray curious to follow the Dark Hound wherever he went.

"Since i'm here again, I might as well take a look around." Said Dusk, knowing that he felt something really familiar about this place.

"Well, uhm, it's getting late. How about you stay over with us and get some food. Ray and I would be glad to show you around in the morning!" Offered Silver.

"Yay! Sleepover with Dusk!" Ray shouted bouncing around, the happiness Ray had was a good reason to stay but...

"No thanks. I prefer my own way." Dusk simply stated before walking on but Silver stopped him and started to push him back.

"I insist Dusk, it would be rude to just let you go out not even knowing where you're going." (If only she knew.)

"I am pretty sur-" Dusk tried to say before Silver interrupted him with a growl.

"Don't fight me on this Dusk the least you could do is keep Ray some company." She gave a serious glare.

Dusk was once again completely silenced. Not wanting to get into a fight with her he decided to go along with it. Not that he was actually intimidated by her or anything.

Ray could only smile as his sister and his friend were finally able to meet, they seemed to hit it off pretty well. At least he thinks so...

That's the end of this part to the story, hope you liked it! If you didn't that's fine too. If you have any thoughts you'd like to share please put them down on the comment section because I would love to know your opinion. Peace all.